The West African Examinations Council has revoked the licences of 574 secondary schools in Nigeria.

WAEC announced that the affected schools were found to have committed examination malpractices.

Dr. Amos Dangut disclosed this during a press briefing at the headquarters of the examination body in Lagos.

For the forthcoming 2025 WASSCE, Dangut stated that 1,973,253 candidates registered for the examination from 23,554 schools.

“This year, we have shared with them a total of 574 schools that have had their recognition withdrawn, and that is also going to be the same for all examining bodies.

“So, these are those that have got their license revoked as far as the examination centre is concerned. So we will not conduct examinations there. We don’t know them as far as conducting examinations,” Dangut said.

Fe said 979,228 males and 994,025 females would take part in the examination.