Developing News: More than 40 percent of the 404,863 candidates who wrote the 2011
November/December
West African Senior
School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE), scored credit passes in five subjects, including
English and mathematics. Head of the Nigerian National Office, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, who announced the results yesterday at the WAEC Headquarters in Yaba, Lagos, said 176,848 candidates,
representing 45.62 per cent made the benchmark for admission into universities. He said the results are better compared to last year’s where only 20.04 per cent of the 309,431
candidates that sat for the examination reached the same benchmark. Visit
http://www.waecdirect.org/ from today to check yours