By Ummi Ismaeel, Minna
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (external) results.
Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma, announced this at the Council’s headquarter in Minna, Niger State on Thursday.
He said that out of 41, 459 candidates that registered for the examination, 39, 503 actually sat for the examination.
Details of the results indicates that, a total of 26, 277 candidates obained five Credits in various subjects including English Language and Mathematics while 34, 014 candidates made five Credits and above across all subjects.
The , who reiterated the Council’s zero tolerance for all examination-related malpractices said appropriate standards and excellence were strictly observed right from the planning stage to the time the results were released.
On malpractices recorded during the examination, Obioma said that 6, 465 cases were recorded in the 2020 SSCE external compared to the year, 2019 with 17,004 cases.
Obioma attributed the reduction in the level of malpractices to deepened monitoring of the examination by members of NECO Governing Board, Management and as well, the Council’s Senior Staff.
In lline with NECO’s zero tolerance for examination malpractices, four supervisors who were found culpable of aiding and abetting malpractices had been blacklisted and would no longer be engaged in conduct of examinations.
Also, one examination centre in Ogun State had been de-recognized for intimidation and several attempts to induce NECO officials as well as aiding and abeting examination malpractice.
He further explained that results of 256, 000 candidates who missed some papers during the 2020 SSCE (internal) due to EndSARS protests in some states and who sat for papers during the 2020 SSCE (external) have been released along side those of external candidates.
