The West African Examinations Council , on Monday , announced that it withheld the results of 215,149 candidates who sat for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination in Nigeria .

The Council said the results of the candidates representing 13.98 % of the total number of candidates who wrote the examination are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice .

The Head of WAEC Nigeria , Patrick Areghan , made this know at a briefing in Lagos while announcing the official release of the results of this year’s WASSCE .