{"id":72322,"date":"2025-08-06T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72322"},"modified":"2025-08-06T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:56:15","slug":"waec-shuts-down-result-checking-portal-cites-technical-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/waec-shuts-down-result-checking-portal-cites-technical-glitch\/","title":{"rendered":"WAEC Shuts Down Result-Checking Portal, Cites Technical Glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has temporarily shut down its result-checking portal due to technical issues, just hours after releasing the 2025 WASSCE results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday evening, WAEC announced: \u201cWAEC hereby informs the general public that the result checker portal @waecdirect.org is temporarily shutdown due to technical issues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Council is working assiduously to ensure that candidates are able to access their results in the next 24 hours. Please bear with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown has left many candidates unable to access their long-awaited results, sparking frustration across social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Users have reported persistent error messages and website timeouts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the council did not disclose the exact nature of the technical fault, it assured the public that restoration efforts are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The disruption occurred barely a day after the official release of the 2025 WASSCE results on Monday, triggering a surge in online traffic as thousands of candidates attempted to check their performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WAEC has yet to issue further updates, but candidates are advised to monitor its official channels for timely information and confirmation once the portal is restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has temporarily shut down its result-checking portal due to technical issues, just hours after releasing the 2025 WASSCE results. &nbsp; In a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday evening, WAEC announced: \u201cWAEC hereby informs the general public that the result checker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72324,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72322\/revisions\/72324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}