Education
WAEC withholds results of over 130,000 candidates from states owing them millions of naira
WAEC has withheld results of students from 8 states of the federation that sat for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE over the indebtedness of the states to the Council.
The Head of National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan disclosed this at a press briefing in Lagos on August 7th.
On the categories of the results, he said that out of the number of candidates that sat the examination, a total of 1,476,565 representing 91.5% had their results fully processed & released.
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Mr Areghan noted that 137,168 others representing 8.5% had a few of their subjects still being processed due to some shortcomings associated with the schools & candidates concerned.
While stressing that the results of candidates sponsored by states indebted to the Council will not be released until they pay up, the HNO listed Zamfara & Niger as the highest debtors. He however refuses to mention the remaining states
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