The National Examination Council NECO announced on Monday that 50,066 candidates, or 67.35 percent of those who sat for Senior School Certificate Examinations, received five credits, including Mathematics and English language.
Professor Ibrahim Wushishi, the Registrar of NECO, said this while announcing the results and starting the Automated Annual Posting Calendar at the Council’s offices in Minna, Niger State.
The test, which took place from November 20th to December 20th, 2023, attracted 74,950 applicants, including 39,213 men and 35,737 females.
He said:
“73,124 candidates sat for the English language out of which 55, 272 representing 75.59 per cent got credit and above while out of 73,119 candidates that sat for Mathematics 67.814 representing 92. 75 per cent secured credit and above.
“Also, 62,530 representing 84.11 per cent got five credits irrespective of Mathematics and English Language.
“The number of candidates that got booked for various forms of malpractice is 8,518 as against 11,419 in 2022. This shows a decline in malpractice cases by 25.4 per cent.
“Two supervisors one from Oyo and another from Lagos State were blacklisted for poor supervision, inability to control the candidates, and for aiding and abetting.
“One centre in Borno State was blacklisted for aiding and abetting sharing WhatsApp messages to candidates.”
Dantani Wushishi, the NECO Registrar and Chief Executive, thanked everyone who helped to ensure the examination’s success and the announcement of the results.
The registrar announced the debut of a three-post Automated Annual Posting Calendar, claiming that he would be able to kill two birds with one stone.
The e-posting is intended to solve the issue of posting council employees for out-of-station assignments.
cc: Punch Ng
