WAEC 2025: Man Shows Nigerian Students Writing English Exam With Torchlight At Night, Parents Lament

• A Nigerian man shared videos and images of 2025 WAEC candidates writing the English exam in total darkness
• There was widespread outrage on social media after students who sat the 2025 WASSCE were made to write the English examination at night
• Parents who came across the post lamented and shared their experiences, sparking reactions online

A Nigerian man shared a video showing students sitting for the 2025 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) English Language paper.

The video, along with others available on social media, sparked outrage among parents and Nigerians.

In videos shared by an X user, @Omolomo_o, students were using lamps and torchlight to write the English exam in the 2025 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The video was captioned:

"This is a school WAEC centre in Nigeria, currently. They are writing the WAEC right now. It is 9:42 pm and they’re students are forced to use lamps to write their English WAEC exam in total darkness."

In the thread, the man also shared pictures and videos from other schools around the country as they struggled to write the WAEC English exam at night.

Watch the video below:

WAEC: Reactions trail viral video

@Akunn_a said:

"Won’t be surprised of the defenders of iniquity come with “it happens in other countries too” let’s keep defending mediocrity in the country."

@a_phezt said:

"This absolutely frustrating... Just left school some minutes ago..... Something is wrong with Nigeria education. We start exam around 2:30pm due to some talk about question leak out,.. They bring the second (essay) part exactly 6:58pm. What a day."

@onyennam said:

"Very true it happened before my very eyes this night I was wondering what was wrong The school next door was still writing exams. @ 9pm."

@Cyberhijabi said:

"At 7pm, my mum had to call the school principal. Something about WAEC questions being late or so."

@stybijuu8 said:

"It's not just there, the English exam was delayed from what I hear from parents."

@ChiomaKJane said:

"Why is my mother telling us that WAEC didn’t start at my brothers school until 6pm and my brother is still in school at this time writing??!!! I don’t understand this country!!?? What is this rubbish ????"

@arooluwaseyi96 said:

"Even here at ilaro. It the same thing. The parent had to go wait for their kids at the school premises."

In related stories, a video showed students writing the 2025 WAEC exam at night in Delta, as citizens drag the government over the video.

2025 UTME: Deeper Life student scores 339

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a 15-year-old Victor Jonah Febuins scored an impressive 339 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

Victor, a science student at Deeper Life High School, Jalingo, Taraba state, chose Biomedical Engineering at the University of Ilorin as his first choice.

He shared the reason why he chose the course while registering for his examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

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Source: Legit.ng