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The West African Examination Council's final year exams are taking place across Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia but Nigeria has by far the highest number of candidates - with more than 1.5 million students in over 19,000 schools. The Nigerian government gave schools just two weeks to prepare for the exam after schools had been closed in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 大象传媒鈥檚 Ishaq Khalid, reporting from the Nigerian capital Abuja, talked to students and teachers to find out how they had prepared.

Photo: A student records her temperature at a school in Lagos, Nigeria, August 2020