WAEC Examinations Committee Decides On Withheld Results

By Ayodele Oni

There is hope for  about three hundred thousand students that sat for the last May/June secondary school certificate examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council, (WAEC) whose results were withheld.

The examinations body disclosed  on Tuesday via its official X handle that a meeting to determine the fate of the affected students has been fixed.

Some of the students were caught cheating during the final examinations, while some affected centres had one time or the other been sanctioned for similar offence.

The information reads “To deliberate on cases of malpractice and irregularities from the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates, the West African Examinations Council will meet with the Nigeria Examinations Committee.

“The 76th Meeting of the Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) to consider and decide on the malpractice/irregularity cases arising from the conduct of WASSCE for School Candidates, 2023 begins today.”

In August, the examination body initially released the 2023 WASSCE results, but the outcomes of 262,803 candidates were put on hold, due to instances of examination malpractice.

However, the body has assured candidates that information about their results will be communicated after the NEC meeting concludes its deliberations.

WAEC had, on Monday, appointed Dr. Amos Josiah Dangut as the Head of the Nigeria National Office.