About NABTEB

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board were established in 1992 to domesticate craft level examinations which were hitherto conducted by City & Guilds, Pittman’s, and Royal Society of Arts all, of UK, in accordance with the provisions of the National Policy on Education.

Its establishment was the climax of an evolutionary process that spanned 15 years from 1977 to 1992, and in which FOUR Government Panels at different times were set up to review the place and structure of public examinations in Nigeria’s education system.

Each of these Panels advocated and justified the multiplication of the examinations bodies and, in particular, a separate body to perform the functions which NABTEB now performs. The process began with the findings of Justice Sogbetun Commission of Enquiry (1978), which was set up in response to public outcry on perceived inefficiency and unchecked leakages of public examinations. This was followed by the Angulu Commission, which was set up as a result of WAEC’s presentation to the House of Representatives Committee on Education in 1981 in which WAEC advocated the setting up of other examination boards in Nigeria “to reduce the burden of WAEC”. The third was the Okoro Panel set up in 1989 to review the Angulu Report. The forth was the Professor Akin Osiyale’s Task Force set up in 1991 “to evolve a strategy to reduce the burden of WAEC and bring about greater efficiency in the conduct of public examinations”.

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