The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the temporary withdrawal of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for school candidates due to the discovery of technical issues in the result release process. The Council made this known in a statement issued by the Acting Head of Public Affairs,...
•Ebule Oritsemeyiwa Precious (right) One of the top scorers of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Ebule Oritsemeyiwa Precious, 16, has received a fully funded scholarship from the Warri South LG Council for his outstanding academic performance. The Chairman of Warri South council, Comrade Agbateyiniro Weyinmi Isaac, honoured Ebule...
•WAEC candidates The West African Examinations Council has come under renewed fire following the temporary shutdown of its result checker portal yesterday evening, a move it attributed to “technical issues.” The announcement, posted via WAEC’s official X handle, @waecnigeria, sparked fresh criticism as many Nigerians continue to express outrag...
•Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa The directive by the federal government for full transition of all examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), from paper to Computer Based Examinations by 2026 has attracted div...
Hostels at Rivers State University (RSU) have become sources of fear and distress, with a series of unsettling incidents plaguing Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Students of the affected hostels, A and C, lamented that they were facing a series of robberies and attacks, reports The Guardian. In Hostel A, a recurring problem of...
The Nigerian office of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced a 24-hour suspension of its result checker portal. A statement issued by Moyosola Adesina, Head of Public Affairs, stated that the result checker portal was temporarily suspended due to a technical hitch. The notice read, “WAEC hereby informs the general public th...
•UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) today listed conditions for screening of exceptional Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates, who are still under the age of 16 years, for 2025/2026 admissions. The board said that to qualify for consideration, under-16 candidates must have a minimum UTME...
The West African Examinations Council has dissociated from a viral list of 151 secondary schools whose candidates’ results for the May/June 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations have been withheld. WAEC had yesterday announced the results of the 2025 WASSCE, where the results of 192,089 candidates, amounting to 9.75 per cent...
Prof. Ortuanya (L) and Engr. Ojo (R) Professor Simon Ortuanya has been appointed the 16th Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), marking a historic moment as the first indigenous Vice Chancellor from the university’s host Enugu North Senatorial District, also known as Nsukka Zone, since it was established in 1960. In his [...
•WAEC candidates Stakeholders in the education sector including educationists and parents yesterday decried the poor performance of students in the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). The results released yesterday indicated that out of the 1,969,313 candidates...
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