An 18-year-old girl, Ifebube Chelsea Benson, from Ndikelionwu, Orumba North Council Area of Anambra State has been named the overall best female candidate in the 2023 NECO Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE). The National Examination for High School Students is an annual test that assesses the knowledge and skills of high school students across the
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A group, Omenife N’ Oduma Charity Foundation has donated N3.6million to Senior Secondary School (SS3) students in support of their West African Examination Council (WAEC and National Examination Council (NECO) registration for 2023/2024 academic session from different schools in Oduma community in Aninri local government area of Enugu state. The beneficiaries of the maiden edition
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“The state government has assured us that it will pay and clear off the debts” – NECO The National Examinations Council (NECO) says Niger State Government owes the examination body five hundred million Naira as debt from unpaid examination fees of students. NECO Registrar, Dantani Wushishi, disclosed this during the release of the results of
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination for External Candidates. This is as the council announced that it has recorded 6,465 exam malpractice cases against 17,004 cases rocorded in 2019. The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof Godswill Obioma disclosed this at the Council Headquarters in Minna,
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination results. The council revealed that a total of ten schools were derecognised by it for engaging in mass cheating. Four schools were derecognised in Adamawa, two in Katsina, Kaduna and Niger, while one each were affected in the FCT and Taraba State.
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination Results pegging the national cut off marks at 142. Presenting the results to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, the Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Godswill Obioma, said a total of 70,580 candidates sat for the examination nationwide, out of which
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has on Monday, announced the resumption of this year’s Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in the states of the federation and Abuja to be on November 9. It could be recalled that the examinations were suspended indefinitely last month over the #EndSARS protest in several parts of the country. The
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has postponed the ongoing Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations indefinitely. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by NECO Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani. According to him, the board’s decision is postpone the exams is due to the current security challenges, occasioned by the #EndSARS
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The National Examination Council (NECO) has on Wednesday rescheduled for the second time in one week the examination of three subjects due to what it termed circumstances beyond its control. The examination was initially slated for for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The postponement was caused by the ongoing protests against police brutality, according to a
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The ongoing nationwide protests against alleged police brutality, tagged ‘EndSARS’ have begun to have a heavy toll on candidates writing schools’ examinations. This was confirmed Sunday as the National Examinations Council, NECO,informed that the development had constrained it to reschedule its Paper I Computer Studies Practicals earlier scheduled to take place on Monday 19 October
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has revealed that the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations (SSCE), organised by the National Examination Council (NECO) for SS3 pupils will commence on October 5 and end on November 18, 2020. The government also announced that the National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) examinations will begin on September 21
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President Muhammadu Buhari, has appointed Professor Godswill Obioma, as the new Registrar/Chief Executive officer of the National Examination Council NECO. This is coming barely two days after removing Professor Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar of the examination body. THE DAILY VENDOR gathered that Professor Obioma on Friday assumed duties at the Minna headquarters of the
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The National Examinations Council has debunked rumours that the council has postponed the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination and Basic Education Certificate Examination due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The council stated this in a statement issued by its Head of Information, Mr Azeez Sani, where he noted that the council though cancelled the 2020 common
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The National Examination Council has said it conducted examinations for candidates in 19 states on credit. The examination body revealed this when its officials appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance in Abuja on Wednesday. The Director of Finance and Administration, NECO, Dr Jacob Ekele, said Zamfara State topped the list of debtors with
Read moreThe National Examination Council (NECO) has urged Nigerians to disregard publication that it was planning to recruit new staff. NECO Head of Information and Public Relations Mr Azeez Sani, said this in a statement in Abuja on Thursday. Sani said the council had no intention to recruit new staff saying that the publication was a
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