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Member-couic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ntries of WAEC are Ghana, the Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierric88ic88ic88a Leone. The statement said in addition to thic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88ic88lr88lr88ic88ic88ic88lr88lr88lr88lr88ic88iclr88lr888lr88lr888ic88e discussion on Nigerilr88a, the melr88lr88etinlr88g reviewed reports on examinatlr88ions conducted between November 1998 and September 1999.
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At country level, the statement said the meeting approved of penalties instituted against some candidateop88s in the Nop88ovember-December SC/GCE Ordinary Level Examinationop88 heldsi88op88 in Sierra Leone in 1998.
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