…As NECO releases outcome
By Wole Mosadomi
Minna—No fewer that 818,492 candidates, which represents 60.26%, who sat for the 2025 Senior Secondary Faculty Examination, SSCE, organised by the Nationwide Examination Council, NECO, recorded 5 credit and above, together with English Language and Arithmetic.
Equally, 1,144,496 college students additionally recorded 5 credit and above, regardless of arithmetic and English within the examination.
Recall that 1,367,310 candidates, comprising 680,292 males and 678,047 females, sat for the examination nationwide
The outcomes had been launched 54 days after the conduct of the final paper.
Saying the outcomes on the headquarters of the council in Minna, Niger State, yesterday, the Registrar/Chief Government Officer of NECO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed that 38 faculties had been discovered to have been concerned in malpractices in 13 states.
He stated: “38 faculties throughout 13 states within the nation had been concerned in complete college dishonest and the colleges can be invited to the council for dialogue, after which acceptable sanctions can be utilized.
“Additionally, 3,878 candidates had been concerned in numerous types of examination malpractices, in opposition to 10,094 candidates final yr.’’
Wushishi additionally disclosed that 9 supervisors, together with three in Rivers State; one in Niger; three in Federal Capital Territory, FCT; one in Kano; and one in Osun, had been additionally discovered responsible of varied types of malpractices.
“The affected supervisors have been really useful for blacklisting resulting from poor supervision, aiding and abetting, lateness, unruly behaviour, assault and insubordination,’’ the Registrar declared.
He disclosed that eight faculties had been affected by communal conflict in Adamawa State, which led to the disruption of the examinations from July 7 to 25, including that 13 topics, 29 papers and 559 college students had been affected..
He stated the council had commenced talks with the state authorities, with a view to conducting the examinations for the affected faculties, mentioning that the outcomes of the affected faculties couldn’t be launched now as a result of they had been incomplete.
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