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The West African Examination Council (WAEC) is set to commence its new diet examination for private candidates in January 2018 .
Head of Nigeria National Office ( HNO ), Mr Olu Adenipekun who disclosed this to reporters at the council ’ s testing and training centre in Ogba, Lagos said the new diet is to address the growing concern among stakeholders over alleged discrimination against private candidates by the examination body .
With the January - February diet, WAEC would conduct three examinations yearly . The other two are the May - June WASSCE and November - December for school and private candidates respectively .
The approved subjects are : Commerce , Financial Accounting, Christian Religious Studies, Economics , Geography, Government, Islamic Studies , Literature in English , English language, Hausa , Igbo, Yoruba , Further Mathematics , General Mathematics , Agricultural Science , Biology , Chemistry, Physics and Civic Education.
Already, registration for the new diet has commenced and would close on December 29 .