The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) have introduced a new arrangement allowing candidates seeking admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions to pay a one-off N4,000 fee to verify their O’Level results.
The two bodies disclosed this in a joint statement signed by WAEC’s Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, on Tuesday.
They said the arrangement was designed to ease the financial and administrative burden on admission seekers, who have often been required to verify their academic credentials repeatedly by different institutions during the admission process.
According to the statement, candidates whose admissions are regulated by JAMB will be required to verify their WAEC results once through JAMB, after which the verification outcome will be made available to the relevant tertiary institution.
Candidates are to make the N4,000 payment only through the designated JAMB Verification Service platform and not to individual institutions.
The bodies also directed tertiary institutions to use the verified results supplied by JAMB for admission screening, processing and other administrative purposes.
Consequently, institutions are not permitted to demand additional payments from candidates for another verification of the same WAEC result.
The new policy followed a series of meetings and consultations between JAMB and WAEC aimed at simplifying the verification process and reducing the financial and logistical burden on admission seekers.
WAEC has authorised JAMB to share the outcome of the verification exercise with relevant tertiary institutions for admission-related purposes.
The bodies said, “This arrangement is designed to ensure that candidates who have successfully verified their WASSCE O’ Level result through the Verification Service platform will not be required to repeat the same verification exercise.”
They added that the initiative would allow candidates to initiate the verification process from the comfort of their homes or any internet-enabled location, reducing the need for repeated visits to tertiary institutions or JAMB-approved Computer-Based Test centres.
JAMB and WAEC urged candidates to take advantage of the new arrangement by completing their WASSCE O’Level verification once through the JAMB-provided platform, noting that the verified result would subsequently be available to the institution where the candidate seeks admission.