NECO releases 2023 SSCE Nov/Dec external results with 67.35% Credits in English, mathematics

From Yakubu Mustapha Minna

National Examinations Council (NECO), has released the results of its Nov/Dec 2023 Senior Secondary Certificate of Education SSCE external with 50,066 representing 67.35% candidates scored credits in English and Mathematics.
The Registrar/CEO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi made the announcement of the results in Minna, saying that 62,530 candidates representing 84.11% scored credits irrespective of subjects.
He added that a total of 74,950 candidates registered for the examination consisting of 39,213 (52.31%) male and 35,737 (47.68%) female candidates respectively.
Professor Wushishi stated that the actual number of candidates that sat for the examination is 74,342.
He noted that 8,518 candidates were booked for various forms of examination malpractice against 2022 with 11,419 candidates indicating a decline by 25.4% just as one centre in Maiduguri was blacklisted for aiding and abetting by sharing WhatsApp messages to candidates.
The Registrar further revealed that the 2023 SSCE external malpractice cases include two centres with 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..
He also launched an automated annual posting calendar of the council’s staff for out of station assignments to avoid the past experiences of favouritism and lopsidedness that raised to serious agitation.