The National Examinations Council, NECO, has said a total of 1,376,391 candidates registered for its on-going 2024 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE.
Registrar of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, disclosed this on Wednesday after monitoring the examination at some centres in Enugu, Enugu State.
Wushishi, who expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination in the centre, said reports received from across the Nation indicated that the examination was going on smoothly.
A statement by Acting Director, Information and Digital Communication at NECO, Mr. Azeez Sani, said the registrar attributed the success to the various measures put in place to ensure a seamless exercise.
According to him, due to some innovations put in place, the menace of examination malpractice is on the decline, even as he admonished candidates to work hard in order to have a good grade in the examination, stressing that “there is no short cut to success.”
He disclosed that since the commencement of the examination, he had monitored the exercise in Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Imo and Anambra States to have first hand Information on the Conduct of the examination.
While stating that in all the states visited, critical stakeholders applauded NECO for the various measures put in place, which have helped in making the conduct of 2024 SSCE seamless, the registrar disclosed that the examination is also being held in Togo, Benin Republic, Gabon, Equitorial Guinea, Niger Republic, Cote d’ Ivoire and the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia.
He explained that the extension of NECO examinations to other countries indicates the wide acceptance of NECO certificates across the world.
Recall that the 2024 NECO SSCE commenced on 19th June and will end on 25th July, 2024, during which candidates are expected to sit for the examination in 76 subjects.
