
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2022 November/ December Senior School Certificate of Examination (SSCE) results, with 57% of candidates scoring five credits and above.
The Registrar and Chief Executive, Professor Dantani Wushishi, made the announcement of the results at the NECO headquarters in Minna on Thursday,
According to him, a total of 60,133 candidates registered for the examination noting that 33,914 candidates representing 57.36% got five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics.
Wushishi, however, lamented that state governments still owed the council over N3 billion for the SSCE examination in the country.
He said out of the total registered, 53.04% were male while 46.96% were female.addiing that the total number that actually sat for the examination was 59,124,
The Registrar said that 11,419 candidates were booked for various forms of malpractices as against 4,454 in 2021. This was sequel to the improved strategy and technique adopted by the council.
He disclosed that four supervisors – one each from Rivers and Plateau states – and two from Ogun State were blacklisted for aiding, abetting, and poor supervision while urging respective candidates to access their results of the NECO website www.neco.gov.ng using their registration number.