WAEC Scandal? Board Acknowledges Marking Mistakes, Updates Students’ Results Nationwide

The admission came during a media briefing on Friday in Lagos, where WAEC’s Head of National Office (Nigeria), Dr. Amos Dangut, revealed that a review of the results showed a significant change in candidates’ performance.

According to him, the corrected results indicate that 62.96% of candidates achieved credits and above in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics—up from the initially recorded 38.32% (754,545 candidates). The revised figures now stand at 1,239,884 candidates meeting this benchmark.

Dangut apologised for the technical infractions, attributing the error to mistakes by service providers who handled the objective section of the English Language paper. He urged candidates to recheck their updated results within 48 hours.

The apology follows a wave of public criticism after WAEC abruptly shut down its result-checking portal, citing “technical issues.”

In a statement on Thursday, signed by Acting Head of Public Affairs Moyosola Adesina, WAEC explained that the review was necessary after discovering glitches and bugs that affected the accuracy of the released results.

The examination body confirmed that, during the review period, access to the result-checking portal would be temporarily disabled, and candidates who had already checked their results would need to verify them again once the updated data is available.