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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released results of the May/June 2011 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.

Dr. Uyi Uwadiae, Head of the Nigeria National Office, WAEC, announced the following statistics:

- 1,540,250 candidates out of which 844,630 are males and 695,620 are females, sat for the May/June 2011 examination.

- Of the overall number, 1,460,003 candidates (94.79 %) have their results fully processed; while 80,247 candidates (5.21%) have a few subjects still being processed due to errors and omissions traceable to the candidates themselves.

- The results of 81,573 candidates (5.29%) of the total number of candidates are being withheld for various reports of alleged involvement in examination malpractice.

- 587,630 candidates (38.93%) obtained credits and above in Mathematics, while 838,314 candidates, (55.34%) obtained credit and above in English language.

- 618,924 candidates (40.55%) obtained credit and above in six subjects; 789,288 candidates (51.71%) obtained five credits and above;

- 943,187 (61.80%) obtained credit and above in four subjects; whereas 1,084,817 (71.08%) obtained credit and above in three subjects.

- A total of 1,223,359 candidates (80.15%) obtained credit and above in two subjects.
- A total of 110 blind candidates sat for the examination, while 41 of them, representing 37.27% obtained credit and above in five subjects.