WAEC says 2025 WASSCE not cancelled

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The West African Examination Council has debunked a viral online news report suggesting that the recent West African Secondary School Certificate Examination 2025 has been cancelled.

In a statement on Sunday by WAEC’s Acting Head, Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, the examination body stated that the said examination had not been cancelled, adding that “the spurious press statement being circulated did not emanate from the council.”

WAEC further stated that although the source of the information, which spread on Saturday, July 19, 2025, could not be ascertained yet, it attributed the purported cancellation as a false claim being peddled by mischief-makers bent on bringing the council to disrepute.

The statement read: “The attention of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, has been drawn to a press statement alleging the cancellation of all the papers written during the just concluded WASSCE for School Candidates, 2025.

“According to the press statement dated Saturday, July 19th, 2025, being circulated on social media platforms, the Federal Ministry of Education, in collaboration with WAEC, had cancelled the said examination due to widespread examination malpractice, coordinated leakage of question papers, and unauthorised digital dissemination of exam materials.

“The WAEC management would like to state unequivocally that the spurious press statement being circulated did not emanate from the council. Punch