The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of 215,267 candidates from the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, representing 11.92% of the 1,805,216 candidates who took the exam.

Head of the Nigerian WAEC Office, Dr Amos Dangut made this known while speaking on the release of the 2024 WASSCE results.

He explained that this figure is 4.37 per cent lower than the 16.29 per cent recorded in the WASSCE for School Candidates in 2023.

Dangut stressed that the Council will continue to sanction all cases of examination malpractice, noting that schools, supervisors, teachers, and candidates involved in such practices were undermining the educational system.

The Council further added that it will continue to sanction all cases of examination malpractice, stating that schools, supervisors, teachers, and candidates involved in such practices