Uwadiae added that WAEC's
main national examinations were conducted for 878,880 candidates in 2016, of which 79,015 candidates (or 8.99 %) enrolled in The Gambia, 465,576 (or 52.97 %) in Ghana, 116,897 (or 13.30 %) in Liberia and 217,392 (or 24.74 %) in Sierra Leone.