NECO blacklists nine supervisors

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced that nine supervisors from five states have been recommended for blacklisting from NECO examinations. The exam body has just released the results of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school-based candidates. This comes exactly 54 days after the last paper. Announcing the results at the Council Headquarters in Minna, the Niger state capital on Wednesday, September 17, the Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Wushishi said a total of 1,367,210 candidates Registered for the examinations. The Registrar said out of this number, 685,514 (male) and 681,696 (female) actually sat for the examinations. However the number of candidates that eventually sat for the examinations is 1,358,339, representing 680,299 (males) and 678,047 (females) Professor Wushishi explained that of this number, 818,492 candidates, representing 60.24 percent, obtained five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics. Equally, 2,144.496 candidates presenting (84.26 percent) also got five credits and above irrespective of English Language and Mathematics. The Registrar who reiterated the Councils zero tolerance for examination malpractice, noted that appropriate standards and excellence were maintained right from the planning stage to the release of results. To this end, Professor Wushishi disclosed that 38 schools were found to have been involved in whole school mass cheating across 13 states during the examination. These schools would be invited to the Council for discussions after which appropriate sanction will be applied. In all, the Registrar disclosed further that during the conduct of the 2025, a total of 3,878 candidates were involved in various forms of malpractice as against 10,094 in 2024. He noted that the reduction in the level of malpractice was as a result of deepened monitoring of the examination by members of the Governing Board, Management and Senior Staff of the Council. Similarly, he pointed out that nine supervisors, made up of three from River, one from Niger, three from FCT Abuja, and one each from Kano and Ogun states, were recommended for blacklisting from NECO examinations. Professor Dantani stated that the Council encountered some challenges in Adamawa state involving eight schools as a result of communal classes, which necessitated in the suspension of the examinations in this school, adding that 13 subjects Nevertheless, he maintained that the examination body has since commenced discussion with the state government with a view to conducting the examinations for the affected schools. The Registrar also told the gathering that the 2025 SSCE examination results might be the last under his tenure following the expiration of his first four-year tenure in July 2026. He commended the staff for their professionalism, discipline, and relentless pursuit of excellence, stressing that your intellectual rigour, meticulous attention to quality, and commitment to ethical standards have ensured that we deliver results that are credible and trusted by the students, institutions, and the public.