By Joseph Erunke, Abuja
Candidates seeking admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions will now pay N4,000 only once to verify their West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, or O’Level results, under a new arrangement jointly introduced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, and the West African Examinations Council, WAEC.
The development is expected to bring relief to admission seekers who have often been subjected to repeated verification of their academic credentials by different institutions during the admission process.
Under the new arrangement, candidates whose admissions are regulated by JAMB are required to verify their WAEC results once through JAMB, after which the verification outcome will be made available to the relevant tertiary institution.
JAMB and WAEC, in a joint statement issued on Tuesday, said candidates would make the ₦4,000 payment only through the specified JAMB Verification Service platform, stressing that the fee should not be paid to individual institutions.
