•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...
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...
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...
•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...
•WAEC candidates The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the official release of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for school candidates. The council, in a statement issued today, Monday, August 4, 2025, via its official X Platform, formerly (Twitter), expressed satisfaction in noti...
Some stakeholders in the education sector have expressed concerns about the plan of the federal government to ensure full transition from paper-pencil mode to full Computer-Based Testing for all examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and Technical Examin...
•WAEC candidates The pronouncement by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, that the conduct of the Senior Secondary School Examinations by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC and the National Examinations Council, NECO, will now be computer-based as from next year, may have to be reviewed, going by opinions by critical stakehold...
•WAEC national office, Lagos A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Evans Ufeli, has dragged the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and the Minister of Education before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, seeking redress for what he described as the gross violation of the fundamental rights of Nigerian students during the c...
•Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State The Katsina State Government yesterday called for the cancellation of the English language examination recently conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The call followed an incident which led to the commencement of the examination several hours behind the scheduled time nationwide on Wed...
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