{"id":240107,"date":"2026-08-01T19:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-waec-cancels-results-of-601-bece-candidates-over-malpractice\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:55:56","slug":"ghana-waec-cancels-results-of-601-bece-candidates-over-malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-waec-cancels-results-of-601-bece-candidates-over-malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: WAEC Cancels Results of 601 Bece Candidates Over Malpractice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the results of 601 candidates for engaging in examination malpractice, as it released the provisional results of the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for school candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">In addition, the council has withheld the results of 2,889 candidates, including 2,722 from 229 schools, pending investigations into suspected irregularities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a statement issued yesterday and signed by its Public Affairs Officer, Mr John Kapi, WAEC&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607310259.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the results of 601 candidates for engaging in examination malpractice, as it released the provisional results of the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) for school candidates. In addition, the council has withheld the results of 2,889 candidates, including 2,722 from 229 schools, pending investigations into suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,10572,10157,9085,4508,4509,10030,257,6407,254,12995],"class_list":["post-240107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bece","tag-cancels","tag-candidates","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-malpractice","tag-news","tag-results","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}