Tolani Alli-Balogun, the Commissioner for the Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, has announced that the state government will be paying N1.5bn to register 58,000 students for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for this year.

This was revealed by the commissioner on Thursday while reporting the activities of the ministry in commemoration of the first year of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in office for the second term of his administration.

In May 29, 2023, Sanwo-Olu took the oath of office for his second term as governor promising in his inaugural speech not to disappoint Lagosians.

The commissioner, who spoke at the state secretariat, said, “The administration of Babajide Sanwo-Olu has never defaulted on the payment of WASCCE fees of all public school SS3 students in the four years of Governor Sanwo-Olus’s first term in office. The state government paid over N4.2bn between 2020 and 2023 to keep our promise of full payment of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination fees.

“In the current school year (2024), the governor has approved the sum of N1,571,076,000 as registration fees and other cost for 58,188 SS3 students writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.”

The West African Examination Council, in charge of conducting WASSCE, stated that they have concluded plans to begin computer-based examinations in 2024.

The first-ever CBT exam, 2024–First Series results was released in march 2024.

The performance analysis of candidates showed that out of the 8,139 candidates that sat for the examination, 3,424 candidates representing 42.07 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects (with or without English Language and/or Mathematics).