68% Pass English, Maths As NABTEB Releases 2025 Exam Results

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has released the results of its 2025 June/July National Business Certificate (NBC) and National Technical Certificate (NTC) examinations, with 61,104 candidates representing 68.18 per cent securing 5 credits and supra successful English Language and Mathematics.

The Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of NABTEB, Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mohammed announced the results connected Thursday astatine the Board’s Annex Office successful Abuja.

Mohammed described the show arsenic an betterment compared to the 2024 results, wherever 65.34 per cent of candidates deed the aforesaid benchmark.

According to the breakdown, 92,875 candidates registered for the examinations crossed 1,892 centres nationwide, representing a 37.08 per cent summation successful enrolment compared to the 67,751 candidates who registered successful 2024. Out of this number, 89,621 candidates were graded, comprising 57,651 males (62.07%) and 35,224 females (37.93%).

“The NABTEB examinations were conducted nationwide from Monday, 16th June to Thursday, 17th July 2025. A full of 92,875 candidates registered for the examinations successful 1,892 centres arsenic against 67,751 successful 1,708 centers successful 2024, which represents 37.08% and 10.77% summation successful enrolment and fig of centres respectively.

“Analyses of the enrolment bespeak that candidates enrolled for 16 Engineering Trades, 7 Construction Trades, 9 Miscellaneous Trades, 4 Business Trades, and 16 General Education Subjects.

“A full of 89,621 candidates were graded for the examinations, which represents 96.50% of the full enrolment. Furthermore, 57,651 (62.07%) males and 35,224 (37.93%) females enrolled for the examinations. In English language, 85,476 were graded with an wide walk of 79,575 (93.10%) and 5,901 (6.90%) fail.

“However, successful examination with the 2024 results, 63,866 (95.87%) walk and 2,753 (4.13%) fail. In mathematics, 85,805 were graded, the wide walk is 81,172 (94.60%), and the neglect is 4,633 (5.40%), but successful examination to 2024 results, 60,849 (91.39%) walk and 5,738 (8.61%) fail.

“This infers that much candidates passed Mathematics portion less candidates passed English Language this twelvemonth erstwhile compared to past year’s introspection results,” helium said.

Dr. Mohammed besides noted a diminution successful introspection malpractice cases. He said 435 candidates (0.47%) were progressive successful 516 reported incidents, down from 349 candidates (0.52%) and 524 incidents successful 2024.

He commended the Federal Government, the Federal Ministry of Education, and NABTEB unit for their support, particularly successful driving caller Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) initiatives launched successful May 2025 nether the Renewed Hope Agenda.

According to him, specified initiatives were captious to equipping Nigerian youths with 21st-century skills to span manufacture gaps.

The Registrar further announced that registration has commenced for the 2025 November/December NBC/NTC and Advanced National Business/Technical Certificate (ANBC/ANTC) examinations.

He urged funny candidates to registry online astatine novdec.nabteb.gov.ng oregon done immoderate NABTEB State oregon Zonal bureau to get guidelines for registration.