National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2023 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) external results, with 67.35 per cent of candidates scoring five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics.
Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Dantani Wushishi, announced the release of the results at the NECO headquarters in Minna on Monday.
He revealed that results of more than 8,518 candidates were withheld for involvement in various forms of examination malpractices, noting however that the cases of examination malpractice declined by about 25 per cent when compared to the previous examination.
The Council has also announced the launching of the e-Posting Software that is designed to address the myriad of problems associated with Posting of the Council’s Staff for Out-of-Station assignments.
The examination was conducted from Monday 20th November to Wednesday 20th December 2023.
Wushishi, who said the result was released just sixty-seven (67) days after the last paper, said candidates can access their results on the NECO official website www.neco.gov.ng, using their examination registration number.
While announcing the November/December 2023 External Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, Wushishi revealed that the number of candidates that registered for the examination is 74,950 with 39,213 (52.31%) male and 35,737 (47.68%) female while candidates that sat were 74,342 with 38,867 (52.28%) male and 35,475 (47.71%) female.
“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.
Speaking further, Professor Wushishi, who said the level of malpractices recorded reduced drastically when compared to 2022 examination, however, said two supervisors were blacklisted for various infractions.
“The number of candidates booked for various forms of malpractice is 8,518, as against 11,419 in 2022, which shows a decline in the number of malpractice cases by 25.4%.
“The examination malpractice cases for 2023 SSCE External included two centres, one each in Kaduna and Ogun States involved in whole centre cases.
“Two supervisors, one each in Oyo and Lagos States were blacklisted for poor supervision, inability to control the candidates, and for aiding and abetting. One centre in Borno State was blacklisted for aiding and abetting by
sharing whatsapp messages to candidates.”
Speaking on the e-posting Software, the Registrar said prior to the introduction of the Annual Staff Posting Calendar, Wushishi said posting of staff for various assignments 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 digitalising 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,” he noted.
