The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Nigeria has revoked the licences of 574 schools.
WAEC announced that the affected schools were found guilty of examination malpractices.
The examination body also stated that the schools will not be allowed to conduct examinations even as the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, commences from Thursday, April 24, 2025.
This was disclosed by Head of WAEC’s National Office, Dr. Amos Dangut, during a press briefing on Thursday at the headquarters of the examination body in Lagos.
Dangut said WAEC had forwarded the list of the affected schools to the Nigerian government.
“This year, we have shared with them a total of 574 schools that have their recognition withdrawn and that is also going to be the same for all examining bodies.
“So, these are those that have got their license revoked as far as the examination centre is concerned. So we will not conduct examinations there. We don’t know them as far as conducting examinations,” Dangut said.
For the forthcoming 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), Dangut stated that 1,973,253 candidates registered for the examination from 23,554 schools.
Speaking further, he said 979,228 males and 994,025 females would take part in the examination.
The examination will hold from Thursday, April 24 till Friday, June 20, 2025.
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