The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Nigeria has revoked the licences of 574 colleges.
WAEC introduced that the affected colleges have been discovered responsible of examination malpractices.
The examination physique additionally said that the colleges won’t be allowed to conduct examinations even because the 2025 West African Senior College Certificates Examination, WASSCE, commences from Thursday, April 24, 2025.
This was disclosed by Head of WAEC’s Nationwide Workplace, Dr. Amos Dangut, throughout a press briefing on Thursday on the headquarters of the examination physique in Lagos.
Dangut stated WAEC had forwarded the checklist of the affected colleges to the Nigerian authorities.
“This 12 months, now we have shared with them a complete of 574 colleges which have their recognition withdrawn and that’s additionally going to be the identical for all inspecting our bodies.
“So, these are people who have gotten their license revoked so far as the examination centre is worried. So we won’t conduct examinations there. We don’t know them so far as conducting examinations,” Dangut stated.
For the forthcoming 2025 West African Senior College Certificates Examination (WASSCE), Dangut said that 1,973,253 candidates registered for the examination from 23,554 colleges.
Talking additional, he stated 979,228 males and 994,025 females would participate within the examination.
The examination will maintain from Thursday, April 24 until Friday, June 20, 2025.
