The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) being Africa’s foremost examining board in its over seventy years of existence has continued to experience a paradigm shift in its technological advancement.

 The Council has leveraged technology to improve its service delivery to stakeholders in diverse ways. The migration, from physical registration of candidates to online registration, online verification of results, and online result printout are some of the groundbreaking achievements recorded so far.

Advancing in its mission of encouraging academic and moral excellence, promoting sustainable human resource development and international cooperation, meeting the growing global demands, and ensuring prompt service delivery for collection of WAEC Certificate, WAEC Nigeria, is set to unveil the much-awaited WAEC Digital Certificate Access and Confirmation platform.

This platform is a mobile and web-based application that is designed specifically for candidates, individuals, institutions, and organizations and holds powerful features that enable users to access, share, request confirmation, confirm certificates and recover forgotten WAEC candidate’s examination numbers.

The West African Examinations Council is excited and thrilled to introduce this innovation in a time when the global world has gone digital, this further proves that the Council maintains its vision as a world-class examining body adding educational values to the goals of its stakeholders by providing timely solutions to all bottlenecks and delays associated with the paper certificate thereby creating an easier, instant and safer mode of availing Certificate to stakeholders. With this Digital platform, users will be able to recover burnt, lost, and damaged certificates.

The benefits of this innovation are enormous, as students and individuals who have sat for the WASSCE examinations in the past and present are able to access and share with ease the original copies of their certificates, which can be instantly confirmed from a credible and reliable source regardless of the location.

Also, Institutions, organizations, and recruitment agencies can carry out bulk/individual confirmation of certificates at once with ease. The reliability and authenticity of this confirmation on the digital platform eliminate the chances of fraud.

The unveiling/launching of the product will be on Monday, October 20th^, 2022, the general public and all stakeholders are hereby enjoined to take advantage of this new WAEC Digital Certificate Access and Confirmation platform designed to eliminate the “bottleneck” procedures involved in certificate issuance and collection. The WAEC Digital Certificate Confirmation Platform is available online via www.waec.org , the mobile application can be downloaded on the android and iOS app stores. For more information, stakeholders can visit www.waecnigeria.org and  www.waecdirect.ng