An education advocacy organisation, the Initiative for School Excellence and Education Foundation, has threatened to take the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to court over concerns surrounding the credibility of the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results.
The group has given WAEC 14 days to address concerns raised by candidates regarding the computer-based examination and the processing of their results.
The organisation is demanding that WAEC preserve all examination records, allow affected candidates access to their electronic examination records, and subject the computer-based examination and result-processing systems to an independent verification exercise.
The demands followed growing concerns on social media over alleged glitches and irregularities in the 2026 WASSCE results. WAEC, however, recently defended the credibility of the results, saying they were produced through established marking, moderation and auditing procedures.
The foundation’s lawyers, led by Chinwe Onubogu of Zuriel Law Practice, sent a letter dated 14 August 2026 to the Head of WAEC’s Nigeria National Office in Lagos.
The group wants WAEC to preserve electronic and documentary records, including candidates’ responses, examination-session records, audit trails, server and application logs, scoring databases, result-generation records and reports of technical problems or interruptions.
It also wants affected candidates to have access to information showing how their final grades were calculated, including records of any manual corrections, adjustments or reprocessing that may have affected their results.
The foundation further called for an independent review involving experts in educational assessment and information technology to determine whether WAEC’s computer-based examination platform and result-processing system operated accurately and consistently.
According to the group, the proposed review would not interfere with WAEC’s academic judgment but would assess whether the technological and administrative systems used to generate the results functioned reliably.
WAEC released the 2026 WASSCE results on 5 August 2026. The council said 1,950,726 candidates eventually sat for the examination, while 1,834,695 candidates, representing 94.05%, had their results fully processed and released.
WAEC also reported that 1,200,514 candidates, representing 61.54%, obtained credits in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The council withheld the results of 167,486 candidates, representing 8.59%, over alleged examination malpractice.
The education group says WAEC must respond to its demands within 14 days, failing which it intends to proceed with litigation.
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