Nigerians have raised concerns over the late return of candidates sitting for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.
In various comments on social media, concerned parents and guardians mentioned that their children and wards who went to write their WASSCE returned home in the dead of the night.
They berated the examination body for conducting exams at odd hours, leaving candidates to return late.
They argued that the growing insecurity in the country is a major concern, as it raises fears over the safety of WASSCE candidates who return home from their examination centres at night.
Their concerns come on the heels of the rescue of no fewer than nine abducted WASSCE candidates in Rivers State.
Chronicle NG reports that a team of a private security outfit led by ex-militant leader Asari Dokubo rescued the kidnapped victims from their abductors.
The WASSCE candidates were abducted along with other victims on their way to sit for their exams.
Lamenting on the late return of her child, Shola Elizabeth Olubayo mentioned that her daughter returned from the examination centre past midnight.
”You are complaining. What about my daughter that came back at 12:25am? That is the following day. Nigeria, my country,” she said.
In the same vein, Majekundumi Adebayo mentioned, ”It was the next morning my daughter returned. Her school authorities held them till morning for safety.”
For a social media user simply identified as Favvy, she stated, ”My cousins all came back within the time frame of 9-9:30pm.
”Almost everyone was affected yesterday due to the English exams.
”The questions leaked, and WAECÂ had to change everything a few hours before the exams, and it was customised for all candidates.”
Adding her voice to the issue, Prevail Oge Edwin stated, ”Some of them are still in school because they will be writing geography this morning.”
For Igho Fortune, she said, ”Even my brother came back by 8pm yesterday, and I was wondering which kind of WAEC they were writing.”
Mo Kahinde Adeyemi mentioned that he was on the brink of reprimanding his ward when he saw him coming late.
He stated that he thought his younger brother, who returned home late from school, had gone to watch the UEFA Conference League final played yesterday.
”If not because I saw a student just coming back from the centre… I nearly beat my younger brother thinking that he went to watch Chelsea at half-time,” Adeyemi stated.
For Nkechi Nnamah, she said, “Mine came back around 9 pm. It is God that will help these children. Everything is turning upside down in this country.”
At the time of filing this report, the examination board had yet to comment on the late conduct of some papers in the ongoing WASSCE examination.
