The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has raised alarm over what it described as the “worst performance in a decade” in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, NAPPS National President, Dr Yomi Otubela, lamented that only 38% of candidates passed, a drop from
The Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of AltSchool Africa, Adewale Yusuf, has lamented that many Nigerian aspiring undergraduates are choosing irrelevant courses when registering for JAMB’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). He made the statement during the Apex Tech Summit themed “The African Digital Economy: Building the Infrastructure for the Next Billion Users,” on August
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has recommended 11 Computer-Based Test (CBT) Centres and their registrants for sanction due to fingerprint irregularities during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The leadership of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, with some critical stakeholders, hereby recommends that Any registrant who has registered more than 50
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed grading errors in this year’s English Language results and issued corrected scores after a nationwide outcry. Israel Adebiyi, a student of Crowe Schools International in Iwo, Osun State, was among those affected. His English grade improved to C5 after WAEC re-evaluated the papers. Many students in Osun
The release of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results has brought little comfort to Nigerian students. Instead, it has revived memories of what many describe as the most chaotic examination season in recent years. Prior to the examinations, WAEC’s Nigeria National Office had promised integrity and innovation. Head of the office,
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has temporarily withdrawn the 2025 WASSCE results following multiple reports of technical glitches during the exam. On Monday, the examination body released the 2025 results, which showed that only 38.32 per cent of the 1,969,313 candidates who sat the 2025 WASSCE obtained credits and above in five subjects, including
The Federal Ministry of Education on Thursday confirmed that it has resolved the technical issue that affected the release of some 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, promising that updated records will be available online within 24 hours. The glitch, according to the Ministry, was linked to subjects where paper serialisation was
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that its result checker portal is temporarily shut down. To announce the situation, the examination body took to its official X handle and wrote, “WAEC hereby informs the general public that the result checker portal @waecdirect.org is temporarily shut down due to technical issues.” It assured that
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rolled out stringent procedures for screening exceptional Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates who are still under the age of 16 for admission into Nigerian universities in the 2025/2026 academic session. The JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who made this known during a virtual meeting with vice
The West African Examinations Council has disowned a viral list of 151 secondary schools whose candidates’ results for the May/June 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations have been withheld. WAEC had on Monday announced the results of the 2025 WASSCE, where the results of 192,089 candidates, amounting to 9.75 per cent, were declared as
