The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has said that the results of the 2018 August/September edition of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) popularly called GCE will be out next week.

The exam council made this known on its Twitter page when some users of the social media platform enquired about when the results would be released.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Nigeria’s National Office of the WAEC, Mr Olu I. Adenipekun  has said that the number of candidates who registered for this year’s examinations was far lower compared to previous years.

According to him, “a total of 112,567 registered for the Examinations in Nigeria, out of which 109,902 candidates sat the examination. But only 138 with special needs registered and their peculiar situations were taken into consideration.”

“Out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination 107, 749 candidates representing 98.04 per cent have their results fully processed and released.”

”Only 2,153 candidates representing 1.96 per cent have a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to the candidates in the course of registration or writing the examination.“