A message from the council said it “would duly make an announcement when the results are released”.

It, therefore, asked the public to ignore messages on social media platforms that the results had been released.

A number of messages on social media site had indicated that the BECE results had been uploaded on the WAEC website and that candidates could check their results from August 29.

Among other things, candidates were asked to use various links to download certain applications to buy result checker.

A total of 517,332 candidates from 16,871 public and private basic schools wrote the 2019 BECE. They were made up of 263, 616 males and 253,716 females.