The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the results of the 2023 External Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, (SSCE), with a record of 50,066 representing 67.35 per cent of students who scored five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics, which is higher than that of 2022.
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Professor Dantani Wushishi, who disclosed this while announcing the release of the results 67 days after the conclusion of the examination, said the figure is of the 74,342 that sat for the examination out of the 74,950 who registered.
Professor Dantani Wushishi, while giving a break down of the result, said that a total of 74,950 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 74,342 sat for it.
He added that there was an increase in the number of candidates who got 5 credits and above, including English and mathematics, as against the year 2022.
Wushishi also said their strategies of curbing examination malpractice are yielding positive results, as there has been a sharp decline in the number of cases recorded.
The examination body also announced that it blacklisted two supervisors in Oyo and Lagos States, and one Examination Centre in Borno State, for being involved in examination malpractices in the 2023 SSCE external.
The Registrar also used the medium to launch the automated annual posting calendar to address the problems associated with posting the Council’s staff for out-of-station assignments.
He said that the e-posting calendar would address the lop-sidedness and favouritism, that trail staff posting for various assignments.
(Editor: Paul Akhagbemhe)
