The Head of the Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations Council, Amos Dangut, on Thursday, asserted that there was no leakage of question papers in the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination despite hitches that trailed the conduct of the examination in parts of the country
In the recently concluded examination, candidates sitting Mathematics and Agricultural Science papers in several states were forced to sit their examinations late into the evening due to delays in the delivery of question papers and answer booklets.
WAEC subsequently attributed the delayed conduct of the papers to a combination of logistical and operational challenges that followed a fatal road accident on the Gombe-Yola highway that claimed the lives of three of its officials.
Dangut spoke during a visit of the delegation of the national leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students, led by its Secretary General, Oladimeji Uthman, to the council’s headquarters, Yaba, Lagos, on Thursday.
Speaking, Dangut said, despite security, logistics and other operational challenges experienced during the examination, the integrity of the exercise was not compromised.
He alluded to innovations introduced by WAEC, including enhanced cyber monitoring, which significantly reduced examination malpractice and prevented question papers from leaking online.
Dangut said, “This year, I want to sound it clear and loud that the rate of examination malpractice diminished greatly. The extent and nature of our examination papers flying up and down on the internet were greatly diminished.
“As far as our cyber monitoring team was there and the comments and testimonies we received from stakeholders outside WAEC, there was no leakage in this examination,” he said.
“Whatever glitch that may have been observed in a few states, we have a system that can take care of every glitch. It will never go undetected and uncorrected. There will be no effect whatsoever on the performance of the candidates because we have ways of tackling each issue as it arises,” he said.
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