BREAKING NEWS: NECO releases June/July 2016 results

The National Examinations Council
(NECO) has released the June/July
2016 Senior Secondary Schools results.
Registrar of the Council, Prof. Charles
Uwakwe, while announcing the results
at the Headquarters in Minna, said
88.51 percent of the candidates got at
least five credits including
Mathematics and English Language.
According to him, 905,011 (84.54 per
cent) of candidates got 5 credits and
above in English Language while
812,846 (80.16 percent) got 5 credits
and above in Mathematics.
He said the comparative analysis of
candidates performance in the
examination for 2015 and 2016 shows
that there is one percent (1%)
improvement in the general
performance of candidates in 2016
(88.51%) as compared with 2015
(87.51%).
The analysis of candidates
performance by State has Ekiti State
recording the highest of 96.48 percent
and Katsina State recording the least
with 72.59 percent.
Prof. Uwakwe said that 1,022,474
candidates in Nigeria and other
countries sat and wrote the
examination out of 1,027,016 who
registered.
He said that 43,905 cases of
malpractice was recorded, and the
number of schools involved in mass
cheating as 194, adding that the
results of candidates involved have
been cancelled.
The Registrar said that the council was
able to sustain its timely release of
results at the stipulated time from the
date the last paper was written.