The West African Examinations Council has gone on the offensive against what it calls a wave of unverified claims circulating online about the 2026 WASSCE results — and it wants candidates, parents and schools to stop listening to them.
What WAEC is saying
WAEC’s Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola F. Adesina, issued a formal statement on Thursday, 13 August, pushing back against content creators and social media users who have been casting doubt on the reliability of the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results, which were released on Wednesday, 5 August 2026. The council’s position is straightforward: the results are valid, the process was sound, and online speculation to the contrary is doing real harm.
What candidates should do
If you have a genuine concern about your result, WAEC’s message is simple: go through official channels. The council has offices across the country and a verified online presence where queries can be directed and addressed properly. Posting grievances on social media or sharing unconfirmed claims does nothing to resolve individual cases — it simply muddies the water for everyone else.
WAEC also previously released an official guide explaining how 2026 candidates can retrieve the serial number and PIN required to check their results online, so the tools for verification are already available to those who need them.
The bigger picture
Nigeria’s examination credibility has long been a sensitive subject, and public anxiety around results is entirely understandable given the stakes involved in university admissions. But anxiety does not justify the spread of unsubstantiated claims, and WAEC is right to draw that line clearly. Whether the council’s processes are genuinely beyond reproach is a fair question — one that deserves scrutiny through proper channels, not viral posts. The two things are not the same, and conflating them helps nobody.