By Gabriel Dike
It was a clean sweep, as three Ghanaian students emerged overall best in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), beating over 2.6 million students across the five member countries.
The Head of Public Affairs at WAEC Headquarters, Accra, Ghana, Demianus Ojijeogu, said the council honoured the three Ghanaian candidates with the WAEC International Excellence Award for their outstanding performance in the 2025 WASSCE for school candidates.
The three best candidates are Miss Huda Suglo Suleman (1st), Miss Paula Adzo Elinam Suwo (2nd), and Miss Matthea Aba Andoh (3rd).
According to him, the awards were presented to the three students by the Ghanaian Vice President, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, at the 74th Annual Meeting of WAEC held in Accra, Ghana.
He said the three candidates were selected from 2,612,830 who sat for the examination in The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. The Augustus Bandele Oyediran Award for the best candidate in West Africa, 2025, also went to Miss Huda Suglo Suleman.
In a keynote address, President John Mahama congratulated WAEC on its 74th anniversary and stated that the government and people of Ghana are honoured to host the 74th Annual Meeting of WAEC.
He also commended the member governments of WAEC for their efforts to sustain the institution and lend credibility to their assessment processes.
Mahama further stated that his government would continue to collaborate with other member governments to provide the necessary support to build strong structures and enhance operational efficiency and sustainability.
He noted that WAEC has remained, for more than seven decades, one of the most successful examples of regional collaboration on the African continent.
As an assessment body, the council has made significant strides in upholding educational standards through credible examinations. Continuing, he averred that countless citizens of the West African sub-region holding enviable positions are products of the rigorous and trusted systems that WAEC has put in place.
The president commended the council for the innovative mechanisms it has introduced to maintain fairness, transparency and integrity in its examination process.
Mahama, however, stressed that the surge in examination malpractice threatens to erode these achievements. He added that the proliferation of fraudsters, ready to falsify results and alter certificates, threatens the very core of WAEC’s mandate.
He warned that if care is not taken, the council risks losing its credibility to these fraudsters, adding that this challenge cannot be addressed by the council alone. He called on all stakeholders who uphold truth, honesty and integrity as core values to collectively defend the credibility of the council’s examinations by rejecting malpractice and promoting integrity.
In his speech, the Minister of Education, Ghana, Haruna Iddrisu, who was represented by the Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Clement Apaak, acknowledged the critical role examinations play, not only as a means of screening candidates for further educational advancement but also as an instrument for developing the intellectual and practical skills required to drive the service and productive sectors of member states’ economies.
He also noted that the international version of WASSCE conducted by WAEC places greater emphasis on credibility, comparability, regional collaboration, knowledge sharing and enhancing students’ competitiveness within the sub-region. In line with the directives of the President of Ghana, the Ministry of Education has reinstated Ghana’s participation in the international version of WAEC’s WASSCE for school candidates, beginning with the 2026 diet alongside other member countries.
The meeting also featured the 31st in the series of the council’s Annual Endowment Fund lectures entitled “Fostering Assessment Integrity within the Context of Credentialism”, delivered by the Technical Adviser to the Minister of Education, Ghana, Professor George K. T. Oduro.
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