WAEC Says List of Affected Faculties Cancellation is Counterfeit

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has debunked a viral list making the rounds on social media, which claimed that outcomes from over 100 faculties all the design through Nigeria had been cancelled in the just-released 2025 WASSCE.

The list, which surfaced quickly after WAEC announced the liberate of the 2025 outcomes, falsely claimed that sure faculties had their students’ outcomes fully cancelled on account of examination malpractice.

It moreover incorporated a cast directive asking principals of the affected faculties to file to WAEC’s Lagos office with candidates’ answer scripts and supporting paperwork.

Nonetheless in a swift response, WAEC took to its official X (beforehand Twitter) address on Tuesday to disclose any connection to the list. “Kindly ignore any message listing faculties whose outcomes had been supposedly cancelled,” the examination body wrote.

WAEC stressed out that it doesn’t express faculties to put up candidates’ scripts to its offices below any circumstance, questioning how such provides would per chance presumably even be retrieved after assessments. 

“WAEC obtained’t ever interrogate any centre to lift scripts of candidates to the office. Where would they receive them from?” the council acknowledged.

This clarification comes after WAEC’s head of the Nigeria office, Amos Josiah Dangut, announced on Monday that the council had withheld the outcomes of 192,089 candidates for alleged involvement in examination malpractice. 

These offences reportedly incorporated the use of cellphones at some level of assessments and collusion between candidates.

Accrued, the council made it sure that the solid list circulating on-line became no longer an official tale and advised the public to be cautious of unverified info.

WAEC extra entreated students, folk, and college administrators to count completely on updates shared through its verified platforms and relied on media retail outlets, warning in opposition to falling for counterfeit info.