By Favour Nnabugwu

OVER 5,700 candidates, yesterday, sat for the 2012/2013 common entrance examination into Federal Government Colleges, otherwise known as Unity Schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as the Federal Government scored the National Examinations Council, NECO, high on the peaceful conduct of the examination.

The NECO officer in charge of FCT, Mr. Mustapha Abdul, while on inspection of some of the centres in Abuja, said the council had been able to perfect problematic areas of the past.

Abdul disclosed that over 5,700 candidates sat for the examination in FCT.

He said the greatest challenge in the past was “the pressure from parents who felt Junior cannot do it and so we have to assist him. But we always advised parents to leave Junior alone. Junior can even do it better than mommy or daddy”.
The examination in Abuja was peaceful and orderly. The examination started at exactly 9.40 a.m. as scheduled as all the materials and invigilators arrived early at the examination centres.

Abdul assured that the results would be released by NECO to the Federal Ministry of Education by Tuesday.
Commenting on the examination, Minister of State for Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike, who also monitored the exercise, scored NECO high.