No fewer than 818,492 candidates, representing 60.26 per cent of those who sat for the 2025 Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO), recorded five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics.
Similarly, 1,144,496 students obtained five credits and above, irrespective of Mathematics and English.
A total of 1,367,310 candidates — comprising 680,292 males and 678,047 females — sat for the examination nationwide. The results were released 54 days after the conduct of the last paper.
Announcing the results at NECO headquarters in Minna, Niger State, the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, said 38 schools in 13 states were found to have engaged in whole-school cheating.
“The affected schools will be invited for discussion, after which appropriate sanctions will be applied,” he said.
He added that 3,878 candidates were caught in various forms of examination malpractice, compared to 10,094 candidates last year.
The Registrar further revealed that nine supervisors — including three in Rivers State, one in Niger, three in the FCT, one in Kano, and one in Osun — were indicted for poor supervision, aiding and abetting, lateness, unruly behaviour, assault, and insubordination. They have been recommended for blacklisting.
On disruptions caused by insecurity, Wushishi explained that eight schools in Adamawa State were affected by communal clashes between July 7 and 25. The crisis disrupted 13 subjects, 29 papers, and involved 559 students.
He noted that NECO is already in talks with the state government to reschedule examinations for the affected schools, stressing that their results remain withheld because they are incomplete.
