Withheld WASSCE Results: WAEC Breaks Silence on Viral List of 120 Schools, “Kindly Ignore”
- The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Monday, August 4, announced the release of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results
- The examination body revealed that the results of some candidates in government-sponsored schools will not be released and gave a reason for its decision
- However, a fake circular purportedly from WAEC went viral and was shared across groups on WhatsApp but the examination body addressed the development
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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Tuesday, August 5, debunked a viral list of 120 schools whose results were purportedly withheld in the just-released 2025 May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results.
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Legit.ng reported that WAEC on Monday, August 4, released the WASSCE 2025 results and urged candidates to check their results.
However, following the announcement, a fake circular purportedly from WAEC through its director of examination malpractice and irregularities, Dr. Florence Omobonike Ajayi, has gone viral and been shared across groups on WhatsApp.
The Nigerian Tribune reported that the fake circular contained 120 schools picked across the country, majority of which are in Lagos state, stating:
“principals of the affected schools must appear before the Investigative Panel on or before Friday, August 16, 2025, with relevant documents and the scripts of the affected candidates where applicable.”
Reacting via a post shared on its X page on Tuesday morning, the examination body said the list never emanated from WAEC.
WAEC stated that it would never ask any school to bring the scripts of their candidates because no school has access to documents.
"Kindly ignore any message listing schools whose results were supposedly cancelled. Meanwhile, WAEC will never ask any centre to bring scripts of candidates to the office. Where would they get them from?"
"Do not accept any message that is not on our handles and accredited media."
Meanwhile, a total of 1,973,253 school candidates registered for the 2025 WAEC examinations. This figure includes 979,228 males and 994,025 females, according to WAEC, with the female candidates slightly outnumbering the males.
1,969,313 candidates sat for the examination which was conducted in over 23,000 schools across the country.
How to check WAEC's WASSCE result 2025
Pick up a mobile phone or laptop and connect to the internet.
Go to log on to https://waecdirect.org and follow the instructions on the left hand side of the portal to check the results.
Read more about WAEC here:
- WAEC 2025: Student who rushed to check result displays what she saw, cries out: "It's not funny"
- WAEC 2025: 4 facts to know about newly released WASSCE results
- Student checked her WAEC result, shares photo
FG to shift WAEC exam to CBT
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the federal government revealed plans to utilise both privately owned and public computer-based testing (CBT) centres across the country to conduct the Senior School Certificate Examination starting in 2026.
Education minister, Tunji Alausa, disclosed this after observing a trial run of the CBT for SSCE conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO) at Sascon International School in Abuja, the Nigerian capital city.
Alausa praised NECO for executing the CBT SSCE pilot phase smoothly and announced plans to relocate future school-based SSCEs to designated CBT centres outside school premises.
Proofreading by Funmilayo Aremu, copy editor at Legit.ng.
Source: Legit.ng
