The National Examinations Council, NECO, on Monday afternoon, said it had not recorded any case of the disruption of its ongoing examinations in the South-East or any part of the country, following the activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.

By Ibrahim Wuyo – Kaduna Gunmen in Kaduna at the weekend, robbed at gun point, a NECO supervisor of neatly packaged exams question papers thinking it was money. À source at the GDSS Unguwan Sarki Kaduna, located within Kaduna metropolis,told journalists that the supervisor had gone to a commercial bank where she collected the packaged […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu – Abuja House of Representatives Committee on Finance, yesterday queried the National Examinations Council (NECO) for failing to remit the sum N636, 778, 000 in 2019. The Committee which grilled the Acting Registrar of NECO, Ebikibina Ogborodi, and other top Executives on Wednesday expressed displeasure with the action.  Ogborodi while answering questions […]

The Registrar/Chief Executive, National Examinations Council, Professor God wills Obioma is dead.

By Henry Umoru THE Senate has queried  the nation’s secondary examination body, the National Examination Council, NECO, over alleged award of contracts to the tune of N6.5 billion without due process . According to the Senate, the contracts awarded by NECO are the printing of security and non- security documents. This was raised by the […]

By Wole Mosadomi & Joseph Erunke The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the results of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination for external candidates. Announcing the results at the council headquarters in Minna, Niger State, yesterday, the Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Godswill Obioma, disclosed that a total of 41,459 candidates registered for the examination, out […]

ABUJA–THE National Examinations Council,NECO, has released the results of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination for External Candidates.

By Charly Agwam – Bauchi Bauchi State governor, Bala Mohammed has approved the payment of UTME registration fees for 3,810 students who got grades ‘A’ and ‘B’ in the recently concluded SSCE Aptitude Test in the State. According to a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, the Commissioner, Ministry of Education, Dr. Aliyu Tilde, […]

The Ikorodu chapter of the National Association of Seadogs (NAS) in Lagos State has procured the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and National Examination Council (NECO) forms for some students of Community Senior and Junior Secondary School in Baiyeku-Ikorodu.

…Affected students may forfeit admission to higher institutions By Wole Mosadomi For failure to pay examination fees of its students National Examination Council, NECO, has withheld results of the over 30,000 students of Niger State. Following this development, affected students risk forfeiting their admissions into higher institutions for one or more years. Vanguard gathered that […]

Parent of students in Warri Federal Constituency and the Proprietor of Trust International Schools has commended the member representing Warri Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives Hon. Thomas Ereyitomi for enrolling over 200 students in the 2020 National Examination Council , NECO examination. The Proprietor of Trust International Schools Warri ,Comrade Mike Eboh said […]

By Joseph Erunke THE National Examinations Council, NECO, has announced a new date for commencement of its 2020 Senior Schools Certificate Examinations, SSCE (external). The examinations body, in a statement, Tuesday morning by its Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani, announced Monday, February 8, 2021 as the commencement date. The board said the […]

…233,000 candidates affected by #EndSARS protests By Wole Mosadomi & Joseph Erunke The National Examinations Council, NECO, yesterday released the Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE, results with a 2.3 per cent increase in the number of candidates who scored five credits and above, including English and Mathematics. The Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof […]

The National Examination Council (NECO) says that 233,000 candidates who could not write the examinations as a result of the #EndSARS protests will join external candidates to write the examinations in February. Mr Azeez Sani, Head of Information and Public Relations Division of the council told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on […]

*As it releases 2020 results By Joseph Erunke A total of 233,000 candidates failed to write the 2020 National Examinations Council, NECO, Senior Schools’ Certificate Examination due to the #EndSARS protests that rocked the country last year. The examination body declared this, Wednesday, during a media briefing in Minna, where it release the 2020 SSCE […]