WAEC Releases 2023 WASSCE Results, Withholds Results Of Indebted States

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the 2023 results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), while withholding the results of eight indebted states.

The Head of National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, made the disclose while giving details of the results of the examination at a press conference held at its headquarters in Lagos on Monday.

Areghan stated that, “Today, I am happy to inform you that all the processes leading to the release of 2023 results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for School Candidates, 2023, in Nigeria have been completed,

“The conduct of WASSCE for School Candidates, 2023 ended on June 23, 2023, and today, Monday, August 7, 2023, 44 days after the conduct of the last paper, one day short of the existing template, the result is being released.

“The council in Nigeria has not rested on its oars, it has rebuilt, reinvented, strengthened, and modernised its product and service delivery to all stakeholders and has continued to prioritize the use of technology in most of its operations to enhance the quality of its service delivery.

“This has positively impacted the prompt release of the result in focus, despite all the inconveniences encountered on the field such as insecurity, non-adherence to registration deadlines, financial issues, inflation, and rogue website operators.”

He further stated that 20,867 recognized secondary schools in the country presented candidates for the exam, while candidates from some schools in Benin Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, and Equatorial Guinea where the Nigerian curriculum for Senior Secondary Schools is being used, also enrolled candidates for the examination.

The Chief Executive said that of the total number of candidates, 794,280 were males, while 819,453 were females, representing 49.22 per cent and 50.78% per cent respectively.

He said 137,168 candidates representing 8.5% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some shortcomings, and gave the assurance that they would get their full results in few days.

An analysis of the results show that out of a total of 1,613,733 candidates that sat for the examination, 1,361,608 candidates, representing 84.38 per cent, obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects, while 1,287,920, candidates, representing 79.81 per cent, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

Areghan, whose tenure engineered innovative strides such as the introduction of digital certificates, digital printing press, educational statistics accessibility, electronic library, charbox. center locator etc, will soon bow out of service this year.

He however hinted that the results of students from eight states of the federation that sat for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, have been withheld by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, over the indebtedness of the states to the council.

“I need to restate that the results of candidates sponsored by states indebted to the Council will not be released now until they pay up. We appeal to them to do so to enable the affected schools/candidates to access their results.” Areghan. warned.