APPLY: WAEC Announces Opening of Portal for 2025 WASSCE Recognition

APPLY: WAEC Announces Opening of Portal for 2025 WASSCE Recognition

  • The WAEC school recognition portal will soon be active for interested proprietors across Nigeria to submit their application
  • Legit.ng reports that the platform is used by WAEC Nigeria to register schools that have been inspected by designated staff of the council
  • Apart from the WAEC school recognition portal, learning institutes are invited to submit the continuous assessment

Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has over 9 years of experience covering education in Nigeria and worldwide.

Yaba, Lagos state - The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the opening of the online portal for the school recognition for the upcoming 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The portal for the upload of continuous assessment scores (CASS) was also opened.

Just In: WAEC announces opening of portal for 2025 WASSCE recognition
WAEC is in charge of WASSCE in Nigeria and is headed by Amos Josiah Dangut. Photo credit: @waecnigeria
Source: Twitter

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Schools that wish to present candidates for the 2025 WASSCE are encouraged to complete their recognition process and upload the necessary data within the stipulated deadlines.

WAEC continuous assessment
A screengrab from WAEC's X handle explaining the continuous assessment. Photo credit: @waecnigeria
Source: Twitter

The recognition portal will be open for the recognition of new schools from Monday, September 2 to December 13, 2024.

Meanwhile, the CASS 1 and 2 upload portal will remain open from September 2 to December 20, 2024.

WAEC’s statement partly reads:

“All schools seeking approval for WASSCE (school candidate) 2025 are advised to make the appropriate payments and complete their application process within this period.
“The CASS upload portal for CASS 1 and 2 will be open from September 2 to December 20, 2024.
“Consequently, all schools presenting candidates for WASSCE (SC) 2025 are urged to upload their CASS 1 and 2 data before the closing date.

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“Please note that the portals will close at midnight on the due dates, and no further requests will be entertained after the closure.”

Snapshot of WAEC

The WAEC is an examination board established by law to determine the examinations required in the public interest in English-speaking West African countries, to conduct the examinations and to award certificates comparable to those of equivalent examining authorities internationally.

WAEC conducts exit examinations in five English-speaking countries of West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Gambia).

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Source: Legit.ng

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Ridwan Adeola (Current Affairs Editor) Ridwan Adeola Yusuf is a Current Affairs Editor at Legit.ng and a certified journalist with over 9 years of experience. He edited Politics Nigeria's articles, was the Acting Editor of AllNews Nigeria and Fact-Checking Researcher (Africa Check). He received his HND in Mass Communication from The Polytechnic Ibadan. He received a Certificate of Achievement (Journalism Clinic’s Fix The Leak masterclass, 2021) and also completed Google News Initiative's Advance digital reporting curriculum. Contact him at ridwan.adeola@corp.legit.ng.