{"id":72443,"date":"2025-08-07T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72443"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:19:05","slug":"waec-under-fire-as-result-portal-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/07\/waec-under-fire-as-result-portal-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"WAEC Under Fire as Result Portal Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has come under criticism after its result-checking portal, waecdirect.org, went offline just two days after the release of the 2025 WASSCE results on Monday, August 4.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday, August 6, the examination body confirmed the outage, attributing it to &#8220;unexpected system issues.&#8221; WAEC assured the public that its engineers are working to resolve the problem and restore access within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of candidates and parents have expressed frustration over login failures and inaccessible result pages.<\/p>\n<p>With tension and anticipation running high, WAEC has apologized for the inconvenience and appealed for patience as technical work continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has come under criticism after its result-checking portal, waecdirect.org, went offline just two days after the release of the 2025 WASSCE results on Monday, August 4. In a post on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Wednesday, August 6, the examination body confirmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72443","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=72443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72445,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72443\/revisions\/72445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}