The West African Evaluations Council has withheld the results of 167,486 prospects who sat the 2026 West African Senior Citizen School Certificate Examination for School Candidates over allegations of evaluation malpractice.
The affected results represent 8.59 percent of the 1,950,726 candidates who took part in the assessment, representing a minor improvement from the 9.7 percent malpractice rate taped in the 2025 diet.
The announcement was made on Wednesday in Lagos by the Head of WAEC’s Nigeria National Office, Dr Amos Dangut, throughout the official release of the 2026 assessment outcomes.
Dangut associated the withheld results to numerous kinds of examination misbehavior, particularly the continued usage of cellphones in assessment halls regardless of an existing ban, as well as organised malpractice involving some schools.
He also revealed that a variety of supervisors and invigilators implicated in aiding evaluation malpractice had actually been collared and would face disciplinary action through the proper state ministries of education.
According to WAEC, 1,959,668 prospects from 24,207 secondary schools throughout Nigeria, Benin Republic, Côte d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea signed up for the examination, while 1,950,726 eventually sat for the documents.
Of those who took the examination, 1,200,514 candidates, representing 61.54 percent, acquired credits in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The council also reported that 1,687,378 prospects, or 86.50 percent, made credits in a minimum of 5 topics, regardless of their performance in English Language and Mathematics.
WAEC noted that the percentage of candidates who secured 5 credits, consisting of English and Mathematics, visited 1.42 percentage points when compared with the 2025 examination.
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Among the candidates who achieved the criteria of 5 credits, including English Language and Mathematics, 641,631 were female, representing 32.89 per cent of the overall candidature.
Overall, female candidates numbered 997,267, representing 51.12 percent of those who sat the assessment, while 953,459 prospects, or 48.88 percent, were male.
The council divulged that 1,834,695 candidates, representing 94.05 percent of the total candidature, had their results completely processed and launched.
Nevertheless, the outcomes of 116,031 prospects, amounting to 5.95 percent, were still going through processing.
WAEC also exposed that 1,213 candidates coping with unique needs participated in the examination. They consisted of 137 visually impaired candidates, 491 candidates with hearing disability, 55 prospects who were spastic or mentally challenged, and 41 physically challenged prospects.
The 2026 assessment was the 2nd edition of the Computer-Based WASSCE for school candidates following the introduction of the format by the evaluation body.
Dangut said WAEC executed several technological innovations during the exercise to improve performance and protect the stability of the evaluation process. These consisted of the Digital Examiner Marking System to accelerate result processing, the serialisation of question papers to reduce evaluation malpractice, and a new online platform that allows prospects to generate electronic PINs for result checking.
The evaluation was carried out between April 24 and June 19, 2026, with 102,708 examiners participating in the marking process throughout 88 designated centres.
In what he described as his 3rd and final media rundown as Head of WAEC’s Nigeria National Workplace, Dangut likewise warned that candidates sponsored by state governments indebted to the council would not have access to their outcomes until the outstanding financial obligations were settled.