WAEC appoints Amos Dangut as registrar, CEO

WAEC said Dangut has more than two decades of experience in test development, administration and post-examination activities, with significant use of information and communications technology to improve examination processes.

Academic and professional engagements

The new WAEC Registrar has served on the governing boards of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Joint Universities Preliminary Examinations Board (JUPEB) and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

He has also represented WAEC at education policy forums, including the Joint Consultative Committee on Education and the National Council on Education.

Dangut is a scholar with publications in national and international journals and has participated in several national and international conferences and forums.

He currently serves as the Regional Representative of the West African sub-region on the Executive Board of the Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA).

He is also a Fellow of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM).

Dangut assumes the leadership of WAEC as the council continues to expand the use of digital technologies in examination administration across the West African sub-region.