From our correspondent in Minna
The National Examinations Council, NECO has released the results of its Nov/Dec 2023 Senior Secondary Certificate of Education SSCE, external, with 50,066 representing 67.35% candidates scoring credits in English and Mathematics.
The Registrar/CEO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi made the announcement of the results in Minna, saying that 62,530 candidates representing 84.11% scored credits irrespective of subjects.
He added that a total of 74,950 candidates registered for the examination consisting of 39,213 (52.31%) male and 35,737 (47.68%)
female candidates respectively.
Professor Wushishi stated that the actual number of candidates that sat for the examination is 74,342.
He noted that 8,518 candidates were caught with various forms of examination malpractices, against the figure of 11,419 candidates recorded in 2022, indicating a decline by 25.4%.
He said one centre in Maiduguri was blacklisted for aiding and abetting malpractice by sharing WhatsApp messages to candidates.
The Registrar further revealed that the 2023 SSCE external malpractice cases included two centres with one each in Kaduna and Ogun states involved overall and that two supervisors, one each in Oyo and Lagos states, were blacklisted for poor supervision, inability to control the candidates and for aiding and abetting malpractices.
He also launched an automated annual posting calendar of the council’s staff for out of station assignments to avoid the past experience of favouritism and lopsidedness.
