In September 2026, long queues persisted into the third day of school-placement problem solving at GNAT Hall in Accra, Ghana. One father left home with his son at 3 a.m. and arrived at 4 a.m. Officials began seeing families around 8 a.m., but after waiting throughout the day the pair were told to return the next morning. With the case unresolved, they spent the night in the hall's car park.
The centre handled exceptions generated by the Computerised School Selection and Placement System. The boy had been assigned to Apam Day Senior High School in the Central Region as a day student, but the school directed the family to the Accra centre. Requests to change day status to boarding, failed placements and school-selection problems converged at the same venue.
A process designed to allocate schools online ended with families writing explanations on paper and waiting at a counter. Even a 4 a.m. arrival did not fit into one day; parents and children absorbed the system's unresolved exceptions as lost sleep.