The National Examinations Council, NECO, has recorded Sixty one percent reduction in various malpractices involving candidates in the June /July 2025 Internal, Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE.
A breakdown of this indicate that over Three thousand Eight Hundred candidates are booked as against the over Ten thousand cases recorded in 2024 during the same examination.
Announcing the results at the Headquarters of NECO in Minna, the Registrar of the Council Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi however said Thirty Eight Schools from thirteen States were engaged in whole school cheating.
According to the Registrar, Nine supervisors, three from Rivers, one Niger, Three in FCT and One each in Kano and Osun States were also caught aiding and abetting malpractice and are recommended for blacklisting.
On the number of candidates that registered, Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi said over One million three hundred and Fifty Eight Thousand representing six hundred and Eighty males and Six hundred and Seventy Eight thousand females sat for the examination.
He said of the figure, Sixty percent representing over Eight Hundred and Eighteen thousand candidates scored five Credits and above including English and Mathematics.
The NECO Registrar, pointed out that results of Eight Schools in Lomorde local Government area of Adamawa state affecting about six hundred students could not be released due to the communal clashes that disrupted the exercise.
He appealed to the candidates to bear with the Council as efforts are being made to rewrite the thirteen subjects affected during the fracas.
Professor Wushishi appreciated President Bola Tinubu, the Federal Ministry of Education and other stakeholders for their immense positive contributions that are pushing the Council to greatness.
Highlight of the event was the presentation of awards to staff of NECO who participated and won some medals at the last Federal Civil Service Game held in Port Harcourt Rivers State.
Reporting by Aliyu Muhammad