The West African Examinations Council has disowned a letter circulating online that claimed security personnel would be deployed to all examination centres for the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates, 2026. In a disclaimer issued by its spokesperson, Moyosola Adesina, the council said the document was fake and had not come from any WAEC office.
The warning landed while school proprietors, principals, supervisors, invigilators, parents and candidates were already navigating the 2026 WASSCE, making the false note a live source of confusion rather than a passing nuisance. WAEC said the forged letter was addressed to school proprietors and principals across the country and carried a forged signature of the Senior Deputy Registrar and Head of Test Administration, S.D. Kum.
WAEC said the letter did not emanate from the office of the Senior Deputy Registrar, Test Administration, or any other department within WAEC Nigeria, and that it had not issued any directive on deploying security personnel to individual examination centres. The fake document was dated 27 May and claimed that arrangements had been concluded for the deployment of officers of the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to all WAEC centres beginning 1 June.
That claim gave the letter an appearance of authority, but it also exposed the gap at the centre of the episode: no such instruction was issued by the exam body. WAEC said mischief-makers and fraudsters were trying to mislead school authorities, parents and candidates, and urged school authorities, supervisors, invigilators, parents and the general public to disregard the contents of the letter entirely.
For now, the immediate risk is not a security deployment that never existed, but the confusion created by a forged notice timed to the middle of an active exam season. The unknown is who produced and spread it, and whether the warning from WAEC is enough to stop it from being treated as real.
