It is my honour and privilege to welcome, on behalf of the Secretariat and on my personal behalf,the Chairman, Vice Chairman, Leaders of Delegation and distinguished Delegates from The Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone to Accra, Ghana for the series of meetings of the International Committees of Council which will be held at the Conference Room of the West African Examinations Council, Accra from Monday, January 16 to Tuesday, January 24, 2012. AKWAABA!

I wish the Registrar and all officers of Council a happy 2012 in good health and with success in all our plans. We thank God for His blessings and guidance throughout 2011 and as we usher in the New Year, we continue to claim His promise to guide and direct our paths always. The year 2011 has been a very challenging one for the Council in many ways. While the number of cases of discipline for example, may not have matched that of 2010, they have had their fair share of sensitivity and political undertones, which by God’s Grace we were able to surmount and still maintain our cohesion and focus as a family.

Beloved colleagues,

It is with a heart full of joy that I extend warm greetings and felicitations to you all as I welcome all of you into the New Year 2012. I thank God on behalf of all of us, for seeing us through 2011 and granting unto us the grace of life, good health, protection, provision, and favour on all fronts. I pray that we will, individually and collectively, enjoy more from the abundance of His grace in 2012 and beyond. Let me use this occasion to congratulate you all on the modest achievements and successes which we recorded in 2011. We committed ourselves to the accomplishment of the Council’s mission of developing and maintaining internationally accepted procedures in examinations. We strove for the highest standards in the application of ICT to the various processes in the conduct of the Council’s business.