The National Examination Council has released the results for the November/December 2023 External Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, with 62,530 candidates, representing 84.11%, achieving five (5) credits and above, regardless of English Language and Mathematics.
Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Wushishi stated this while reeling out results and performances of candidates in the Exam at the agency’s headquarters in Minna Niger State, North Central Nigeria.
The NECO boss said; “50,066 representing 67.35% also secured five Credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics in the exam.”
He said; “the number of candidates that registered for the examination is 74,950 out of which 74,342 sat for the exam.
“The number of candidates that sat for English Language is 73,124 out of which 55,272, representing 75.59% got Credit and above.
“The number of candidates that sat for Mathematics is 73,119, out of which 67,815, representing 92.75% got Credit and above.
“The number of Candidates who got five (5) Credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics is 50,066 representing 67.35%.
“Also 62,530 candidates, representing 84.11% got five (5) Credits and above irrespective of English Language and Mathematics,”he said.
Professor Wushishi said the level of malpractices recorded reduced drastically when compared to 2022 examination, stressing that two supervisors were blacklisted for various infractions.
He said; “The examination malpractice cases for 2023 SSCE External included two centres, one each in Kaduna and Ogun States involved in whole centre cases.”
The NECO boss called on candidates to access their results by visiting the NECO official website www.neco.gov.ng, using their examination registration number.
The examination body also unveiled an e-posting software to facilitate seamless posting of staff to various parts of the country during its scheduled examinations.
According to Professor Wushishi, the e-Posting Software is designed to address the myriad of problems associated with posting of NECO staff for out-of-station assignments.
He noted that prior to the introduction of the annual staff posting Calendar, the posting exercise was greeted with a lot of complaints arising from lopsidedness, and favoritism which gave rise to serious agitations.
“What we are doing today is taking it a step further by digitalizing the process and making it seamless, thereby addressing some of those concerns associated with the manual process.
“With this new development, every staff will be notified at the beginning of the year about the type and number of assignments they are eligible for, as well as the Place of assignment.
“SMS notification will be sent to all staff after the launching to confirm their 2024 posting status. This will later be broadened to include e-mail messages,” he said.
The NECO boss added that the innovation would no doubt address all the issues associated with the manual posting, as well as afford the staff enough time to prepare.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
