A total of 7,637 females have registered to write this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in the Upper West Region as against 6,937 boys.

Mr Salifu Kalah Abu, the Upper West Regional Examination Officer said, the examination was taking place in 45 centres across the region with 12 centres and 109 schools in the Wa Municipality.

In all, 3,972 candidates, comprising 2,120 females and 1,852 males had registered to participate in the ongoing BECE in the Wa Municipality; Wa East District had a total of 1,381 candidates; Wa West had 1,535 candidates and Nadowli-Kaleo District, 1,051 candidates.

The rest were: Daffiama-Bussie-Issa District, 452; Jirapa Municipality, 1,128, Lawra Municipality, 998; Lambussie District, 831; Sissala East Municipality, 1,258; Sissala West District, 1,085 and Nandom Municipality, 883 candidates had registered to participate in the BECE.

Source: Philip Tengzu, GNA