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Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Examinations Council has released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE internal) results connected Wednesday conscionable 54 days aft the past exam was written.
NECO Registrar, Prof Ibrahim Wushishi, announced the merchandise of the results during a property league successful Minna, Niger State, connected Wednesday arsenic helium stated that retired of the 1,358,339 candidates who wrote the June/July exercise, 818,492, representing 60.26 per cent, got 5 credits and above, including Mathematics and English.
Wushishi disclosed that the fig of candidates with 5 credits and above, irrespective of Mathematics and English is 1,144,496 which represents 84.26 per cent.
He said: “Number of candidates that registered for the introspection is 1,367,210, representing 685,514 Males and 681,696 Females.
“Number of candidates that sat is 1,358,33,9 representing 680,292 Males and 678,047 females.
“Number of candidates with 5 Credits and above, including Mathematics and English is 818,492 representing 60.26%.
“Number of candidates with 5 Credits and above, irrespective of Mathematics and English is 1,144,496 representing 84.26%.”
The 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination was done from Monday June 16, to Friday July 25, 2025.
According to Wushishi, the fig of candidates with peculiar needs was 1,622, retired of which candidates who has proceeding impairment were 586 males and 355 females, and candidates with ocular impairment were 111 Males and 80 Females.
Speaking connected the fig of introspection malpractice cases, the registrar stated that successful the 2025 SSCE internal, the fig of candidates progressive successful antithetic forms of “malpractice was 3,878, arsenic against 10,094 successful 2024, which shows a simplification of 61.58 per cent.”
He added: “During the behaviour of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination, 38 schools were recovered to person been progressive successful full schoolhouse (Mass) cheating successful 13 States. They volition beryllium invited to the Council for discussion, aft which due sanctions volition beryllium applied.
“Similarly, 9 Supervisors: 3 successful Rivers, 1 successful Niger, 3 successful FCT, 1 successful Kano and 1 successful Osun States were recommended for blacklisting owed to mediocre Supervision, Aiding and Abetting, Lateness, Unruly behavior, Assault, and Insubordination.
“I privation to besides gully your attraction to a lawsuit successful Lamorde Local Government, Adamawa State involving 8 Schools which were affected by a communal clash resulting successful the disruption of our examinations from 7th to 25th July, 2025. A full of thirteen Subjects and twenty-nine Papers were involved.
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