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By David Odama
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), internal results showing drastic decline in the number of persons involved in examinations malpractices within the year under review when compared to tha of last year.
Also, the number of candidates with special needs that sat for the examinations in 2025 rose to 1, 622 including 586 males and 355 females with hearing impairment compared to previous years.
The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi disclosed this while giving a breakdown of the results released exactly 54 days after the last paper was written.
Details of the examinations, Professor Dantani said indicates that 1, 367, 210, representing 685, 514 males and 681, 696 females registered, but 1, 358, 339 which including 680,292 males and 678, 047 females sat for the examinations in Nigeria and other parts of the world.
The Registrar also revealed that a total of 818, 492, representing 60.26 percent came out with five Credits and above in English and Mathematics.
Professor Dantani who commended key stakeholders, including journalists for being supportive to the success stories recorded by NECO in recent time said 89 males and 96 females with Adermatoglyphia participated in the NECO SSCE internal examinations.
Meanwhile, the NECO boss has revealed during the examinations, 38 schools found to have been involved in whole school (mass) cheating in 13 states, and will be invited to the NECO headquarters, ‘for discussion’, after which appropriate sanctions will be applied.
Similarly, nine Supervisors; three in Rivers state, one in Niger state, three in FCT, Abuja, one in Kano and one in Osun state were recommended for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding and abetting lateness, unruly behavior, assault and insubordination, he said.
The NECO Registrar/Chief also draw the attention of the Nigerian public to a case in Lamorde local government area in Adamawa state involving eight schools which were affected by a communal clash resulting in the disruption of examinations from 7th to 25th of July, 2925.
A total of 13 subjects, and 29 papers, according to the Registrar were involved, adding that talks were already ongoing between NECO and Adamawa state government officials on ways of making up for the disrupted examination schedules.
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