The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that it is embarking on a comprehensive review of the recently released results of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
WAEC, in a statement signed and released on Thursday by its Acting Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, stated that the review became necessary following the discovery of some glitches and bugs.
The examination body stated that it is therefore embarking on an urgent review to correct the technical glitches that led to this situation.
WAEC disclosed further that as a result of the ongoing review, result checking and viewing have been temporarily denied on its result checking portal.
WAEC also directed candidates who have previously checked their results to recheck them after twenty-four hours, starting from today, Thursday, 7th August 2025.
The examination body noted that it carried out paper serialization on Mathematics, English Language, Biology and Economics, which revealed some technical bugs in the previously released results.
The development comes hours after WAEC on Wednesday announced the temporary shutdown of its result checking portal.
The WAEC Head of Public Affairs unit of WAEC Nigeria, Moyosola Adesina, explained that the result checker portal was shut down due to technical ìssues, promising that the issue will be resolved within the next 24 hours.
Adesina also apologized for the inconvenience the shutdown might cause.
Recall that WAEC had on Monday, August 4, released the results of the May/June 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), taken by over 1.9 million secondary school students across 23,000 schools in Nigeria.
This year’s WAEC examination had a bit of controversy especially as the English Paper was alleged to be leaked and the questions reset, forcing some students to write that paper almost late into the night.
It is hoped that the WAEC body would do its due diligence and the sacrifices of those students would not be in vain.
