WAEC receives ₵200m for 2025 WASSCE students’ registration fees
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has received GH¢200 million to cover the cost of registration of final-year Senior High School students who sat for the just-ended West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The GH¢200 million received by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) as the 2025 WASSCE for School candidates registration fees was paid by the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
“Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) releases GHC200 million to WAEC to cover the cost of registration of 2025 WASSCE candidates,” the Fund said in a social media post sighted by Pretertiary.com.
The Ghana Education Trust Fund, citing the 2025 budget, also said it’s the funding source for the operations of the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme introduced in September 2017.
The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, which commenced on Tuesday, 5th August 2025, with the Visual Art Project work and continued with the written papers on Monday, 18th August 2025, ended on Friday, 19th September 2025.
A total of 461,640 final-year Senior High School (SHS) students, made up of 207,381 males and 254,259 females drawn from 1,021 second-cycle schools, participated in the WASSCE for School.
This figure represents a 0.22% increase over the 2024 entry figure of 460,611. The West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) was taken at 703 centres across the country.
In all, 65 subjects were taken by candidates, but each candidate took an average of eight subjects.
The Council, ahead of the conduct of the WASSCE for School held stakeholder engagements across the country with the view to appealing to all and sundry to join in the fight against examination malpractices.
In addition, examination candidates were sensitised on the rules governing the conduct of the examination and reminded of the repercussions of violating any of the provisions of the rules.
But despite WAEC’s effort, a number of cases of examination irregularity, including impersonation, were recorded in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School.
These include the following;
(i) Two persons were arrested for impersonation at Ghana College, Kasoa. They were arraigned before the court and have been sentenced to six months imprisonment each, while their accomplice was sentenced to eight months imprisonment.
(ii) The proprietor of Christian IPS, Kukurantumi, as well as one of his invigilators, have been arrested for creating a WhatsApp group on which they shared snapshots of questions and solutions to the questions. They have been handed over to the police for further investigation.
(iii) Ebenezer Fynn was arrested at St. Vincent College, Abora Dunkwa, for impersonation. He has also been arraigned before the court.
(iv) Hanna Lariba, a student of Yeji Senior High School, was arrested for impersonation at the Steps to Destiny SHS, Yeji. Another impersonator, Mumuni Abdul Hafiz, bolted before the monitoring team could apprehend him.
(v) Mr. Kodua Desmond was arrested at Abot College, Asante Bekwai. He was handed over to the police and subsequently arraigned before the court. He has been remanded into police custody for two weeks.
(vi) Osei Asibey Daniel was arrested at Atwima Kwanwoma Presbyterian SHS for impersonation. He has been handed over to the police.
(vii) Raymond Kwasi was arrested at Atwima Kwanwoma Presbyterian SHS for contracting Osei Asibey Daniel to write the examination on behalf of Obeng Dapaah Emmanuel.
(viii) Maxwell Chamba and Amaglo Livingstone were arrested at Sefa Bonsu Royal SHS, Yeji, for impersonation.
(ix) A Physics teacher at Ahafoman SHS was found with a mobile phone on which he had snapshots of the Physics practical questions which he had shared.
(x) Mr. Ernest Frimpong, an invigilator, was arrested at King James SHTS for possession of a mobile phone on which was found snapshots of the questions and solutions to them;
(xi) Patrick Essel, a former National Service personnel, was arrested for aiding a candidate to copy solutions to copy solutions from his mobile phone. Further investigations revealed that this was from a platform shared with the assistant supervisor, Michael Boateng. He has also been arrested.
