The West African Assessments Council has actually kept the outcomes of 167,486 prospects who sat the 2026 West African Elder School Certificate Examination for School Candidates over allegations of evaluation malpractice.
The affected outcomes account for 8.59 percent of the 1,950,726 prospects who participated in the evaluation, representing a small enhancement from the 9.7 per cent malpractice rate taped in the 2025 diet plan.
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 evaluation results.
Dangut associated the withheld results to different forms of assessment misbehavior, particularly the continued usage of smart phones in examination halls despite an existing ban, as well as organised malpractice involving some schools.
He likewise revealed that a variety of managers and invigilators linked in assisting assessment malpractice had actually been captured and would deal with disciplinary action through the appropriate 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 registered for the examination, while 1,950,726 ultimately sat for the papers.
Of those who took the evaluation, 1,200,514 prospects, representing 61.54 per cent, obtained credits in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The council also reported that 1,687,378 candidates, or 86.50 per cent, made credits in a minimum of five topics, regardless of their efficiency in English Language and Mathematics.
WAEC noted that the percentage of prospects who secured 5 credits, including English and Mathematics, visited 1.42 percentage points when compared with the 2025 evaluation.
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Amongst the candidates who accomplished the benchmark of five credits, consisting of English Language and Mathematics, 641,631 were female, representing 32.89 percent of the overall candidature.
In general, female candidates numbered 997,267, representing 51.12 per cent of those who sat the evaluation, while 953,459 candidates, or 48.88 per cent, were male.
The council revealed that 1,834,695 prospects, representing 94.05 per cent of the overall candidature, had their results completely processed and released.
Nevertheless, the outcomes of 116,031 candidates, amounting to 5.95 per cent, were still undergoing processing.
WAEC likewise revealed that 1,213 candidates dealing with special requirements took part in the evaluation. They consisted of 137 aesthetically impaired prospects, 491 prospects with hearing disability, 55 prospects who were spastic or psychologically challenged, and 41 physically challenged candidates.
The 2026 assessment was the second edition of the Computer-Based WASSCE for school prospects following the intro of the format by the assessment body.
Dangut said WAEC executed several technological developments throughout the exercise to improve efficiency and safeguard the integrity of the evaluation procedure. These included the Digital Inspector Marking System to accelerate outcome processing, the serialisation of question documents to minimise evaluation malpractice, and a new online platform that allows prospects to produce electronic PINs for result monitoring.
The examination was carried out between April 24 and June 19, 2026, with 102,708 examiners taking part in the marking procedure throughout 88 designated centres.
In what he referred to as his 3rd and final media instruction as Head of WAEC’s Nigeria National Office, Dangut likewise alerted that candidates sponsored by state federal governments indebted to the council would not have access to their outcomes until the impressive financial responsibilities were settled.