02/09/2026
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.
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.
Consequently, institutions are not permitted to demand additional payments from candidates for another verification of the same WAEC result.
The new policy follows 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.
