The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2022 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination results (SSCE).
This was disclosed by the Council Registrar Prof. Dantani Wushishi, who announced the results on Thursday at the NECO Headquarters in Minna, Niger State.
Wushishi said the council blacklisted 29 supervisors for alleged involvement in various malpractice offences.
The Registrar said four schools were recommended for derecognition for two years over consistent malpractices.
Wushishi also revealed that the council recorded a decline in malpractice in the 2022 internal SSCE as compared to other years.
He said; “In the area of malpractices, 13, 595 were caught as against 20, 003 in the year 2021, which showed an appreciable decline in the number of malpractice cases.”
“Twenty nine supervisors were blacklisted for various offences ranging from poor supervision, insult, aiding and abetting during the examinations”.
He said 1,209,703 registered for the examination but 1,198,412 sat for the examination.
Wushishi stated that the number of candidates who got five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics are 727, 864 representing 60.74 per cent.
The Registrar added that the number of candidates with special needs are 1, 031, 98 with albinism, 177 with autism, 574 with hearing impairments and 107 are visually impaired.