By Ajbola Osungbohun
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) sincerely regrets to inform the general public of technical issues discovered during the internal review of the recently released results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC)22025.
This Statement made available Thursday 7th August, 2025 on the Council X and signed by its Acting Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, WAEC stated that “The Council, being a responsive body that is sensitive to fairness and professionalism,has decided to urgently review and correct the technical glitches that led to the situation, as a result, access to the WASSCE (SC) 2025 results has been temporarily denied on the resultchecker portal”.
Recall that the West Africa Examination Council on the 4th August, 2025, announced the release of the 2025 WASSCE Examination result with only 38.32% passing English language and Mathematics at the credit level, which are the core subjects for gaining admission in Nigeria.
This has made stakeholders, most especially parents and guardians, blazing the failure on the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, on the time when the English Language examination was written.
According to the Statement, which reads “ As part of our efforts to curb examination malpractice, the Council embarked on an innovation(paper serialization) already deployed by a national examination body. It is also worth noting that this is in line with best practices in assessment. The paper serialization was carried out in Mathematics, English Language, Biology and Economics. However, an internal post result release procedure revealed some technical bugs in the results”.
The Examination body has now informed candidates who have previously checked their results to throw away that and return to the site to re-check after 24 hours from now.
“We extend our deep and sincere apologies to all affected candidates and the general public. We appreciate their patience and understanding as we work diligently to resolve this matter with transparency and urgency within the next twenty-four(24) hours from this time” end of quote.