WAEC’s head of national office, Amos Dangut, faced lawmakers on the 2nd of June, 2025 with tough questions about the chaotic scenes that unfolded during this year’s English Language exam.
The House of Representatives committee on basic education and examination bodies summoned Dangut following disturbing reports from multiple states.
Last Wednesday, candidates at several centres experienced hours of delay, with the paper scheduled for 9 a.m. starting much later. In some locations, students were seen huddled over exam scripts deep into the night, using “torchlights and phone flashlights to read and answer the question papers.”
Confronted with this, Dangut admitted the late-night exams “did not meet the council’s standards.”
He linked the delay to “logistical challenges arising from the need to print new exam questions after the original ones were leaked.”
But the committee wasn’t buying a smooth explanation.
Billy Osawaru, one of the lawmakers, cut to the chase.
“Are you defining those exams as credible? Yes or no?” he asked.
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Dangut replied, “It was a credible exam.”
That answer didn’t sit well with Osawaru.
“Can the exams conducted using phone flashlights as the only light source be truly considered credible? Can you show me, from your regulations, that exams written under those conditions are credible,” he fired back.
Under persistent questioning, Dangut finally conceded: the exams were “substandard.”
Committee Chairman, Oboku Oforji, then demanded a full report from WAEC, along with its official examination guidelines, detailing how the 2025 SSCE was conducted in the affected centres.