Nigeria — No fewer than 64,000 candidates from Nigeria, Benin Republic, and Togo have participated in the 2025 National Common Entrance Examination, NCEE, for admission into Federal Government Colleges, conducted by the National Examinations Council, NECO. Speaking after monitoring the exercise at Model Secondary School, Maitama, and Government Secondary School, Tudun Wada, the Minister of…
The Executive Secretary of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC), Dr Iyela Ajayi, has disclosed that 40 per cent of the 2024 National Examination Council (NECO) candidates may not proceed to tertiary institutions for no credit in mathematics and english language. Ajayi said this on Tuesday in Calabar during his address at a five-day…
Exceptionally intelligent children below 18 years old may be allowed to write the West African School Certificate Examinations, WASCE and the National Examinations Council, NECO examinations, the federal government has said. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this on Thursday during a tour of the Federal Government Academy, Suleja. “It may not and we…
The Parents Teachers’ Association has said it is in support of the Federal Government’s decision to ban under-18 candidates from sitting for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination and the National Examination Council. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, announced on Channels Television’s ‘Sunday Politics’ programme that the Federal Government had instituted a…
The Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, has been elected into the Executive Council of the Association For Educational Assessment in Africa. According to a statement issued on Sunday by the Council’s Head of Public Relations, Azeez Sani, read: “Prof. Wushishi was elected as the West Africa Representative in…
The National Examinations Council,NECO, stated that the board has not extended the closing date for its 2024 Senior School Certificate Examination,SSCE,internal registration. The examination body, in a statement released on Thursday, by its Acting Director, Directorate of information and Digital Communication, Azeez Sani, said the registration which commenced on Monday 18,December, 2023 will close…
