From John Adams, Minna
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results for the 2024 senior secondary school examinations (internal), with 828,284 candidates, representing 60.55 percent, passing with five credits and above, including English and Mathematics. This is a decrease from 61.60 percent in 2023.
While 1,147,597 candidates, representing 83.90 percent, passed with five credits and above irrespective of English and Mathematics, this is a decrease from 84.68 percent in 2023.
Releasing the results at the NECO headquarters in Minna on Thursday, the Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Dantani Wushishi, said 1,376,423 candidates, comprising 706,950 males and 669,473 females, registered for this year’s school-based examinations.
Out of this number, 1,367,736 candidates, comprising 702,112 males and 665,624 females, actually sat for the examinations.
The Registrar disclosed that the results of the examinations, which took place between Wednesday, June 19th, and Friday, August 19th, 2024, were being released 55 days after the last written paper.
The NECO boss said it has invited no fewer than 40 schools that were found to have been involved in various forms of examination malpractice, including whole-school (mass) cheating across 17 states during the just-concluded Senior School Certificate Examinations, adding that “they have been invited by the council for discussions after which appropriate sanctions will be applied.”
“Similarly, 21 supervisors were recommended for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding and abetting, abscondment, extortion, drunkenness, and negligence in 12 states.”
Consequently, he disclosed that one school in Ekiti State (name withheld) has been recommended for derecognition for mass cheating in two core subjects and one science subject.
However, he pointed out that a total of 8,437 candidates were involved in various forms of malpractice in the just-concluded examinations, as against 22,030 in 2023, a reduction of 30.1 percent.
He urged candidates who sat for the examinations, to access their results on the council’s website; www.neco.gov.ng, using their examination registration number.
