The fate of 460,611 students who sat for the 2024 WASSCE hangs in the balance as the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has failed to release their results due to a GH₵118 million debt owed by the government.

WAEC's Public Relations Officer, John Kapi, explained that the council has exhausted all its financial buffers and cannot proceed without the overdue payment. "We've used every little resource we had to sustain operations.

So this time around, we have nothing to fall on, and that's the reason we are asking that this money be paid so they'll be able to continue their work, " he said.

The delay has caused widespread anxiety among students awaiting their results to meet upcoming university application deadlines.