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  • NECO releases 2017 Nov/Dec SSCE results

    NECO releases 2017 Nov/Dec SSCE results

    The National Examination Council ( NECO ) has announced the release of the 2017 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination results.

    The Registrar of the Council, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, announced the results on Tuesday at its headquarters in Minna.  ‎
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    Uwakwe said a total of 42, 985‎ candidates registered for the examination and 42, 429 wrote the examination in 28 subjects.

    He said 24, 098 candidates representing 56.79 per cent ‎had five credits and above.

    The registrar said 32, 917 candidates representing 77.58 per cent had five credits irrespective of English Language and Mathematics.

    Uwakwe explained that 32, 701 candidates representing 78.82 per cent had credit and above in Mathematics‎.

    He said 29, 258 candidates representing 70 per cent had credits and above in English Language.

    According to him, 4,425 candidates, representing 10.43 per cent were involved in examination malpractice.

    The registrar noted that the number represented ‎5.9 per cent reduction in examination malpractice compared to 2016 record.

    Uwakwe said the results were released on time to enable candidates who needed them for the admission for 2017/2018 academic session.‎

    “It will please the general public to know that this is the first time the council is releasing result of Nov/Dec ‎SSCE results barely 38 days after the test.

    “The early and timely release of the 2017 Nov/Dec SSCE result is in line with the council new work ethos that borders on efficient service delivery,” he said.

    Read also: WAEC releases Nov/Dec WASSCE results

    Uwakwe said the feat was possible as a result of  deployment of improved logistics that ensured appropriate standards.

    He urged the candidates to access their results on NECO Website – www.mynecoexams.com, using their examination registration numbers and the council approved result checker.‎

    Ogun State was best in performance of the 2017 SSCE Nov/Dec  ‎examination.

    Ogun had a percentage of 91. 42 per cent of candidates had five credits and above followed by Akwa – Ibom with 87.97 per cent and Oyo with a percentage of 86.90 per cent.

    Plateau‎ topped the list of the examination malpractice with 943 cases, representing 21.31 per cent followed by Oyo with 884 cases, representing 19.97 per cent.

    Adamawa is the third on 464 cases of examination malpractice, representing 10.48 per cent.

    NAN

  • Ministry to introduce tourism as a subject in senior sec. schools

    Ministry to introduce tourism as a subject in senior sec. schools

    Mrs Patricia Narai, Deputy Director, Domestic Tourism in the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture said plans have been concluded to introduce it as a subject at the senior secondary school level.

    Narai said this in an interview on Tuesday in Abuja.

    “The Nigerian Educational Development Council has proposed 34 trades and identified tourism as one of the trades to be thought at the entrepreneurship level.

    “So students from SS I to SS III will soon start studying tourism and at that level they can come out victorious and establish a tourism business of their own.

    “And they can also further their education on that line.

    “What is left now is the approval, and am sure that soon, the curriculum will be out and the students will start studying tourism,” Narai said.

    On its impact, the deputy director said the students would be empowered with skills and knowledge on the section.

    She maintained that after graduation from secondary school, such a person could become a tour guard, event manager, visa professional or get employment in the sector.

    “This is because he or she would have acquired the needed skills and knowledge to effectively carry out responsibilities that will encourage tourists and boost the positive image of the country.”

    On getting the propose tourism subject into Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Examination, she explained that it would be a gradual process.

    “We have done the curriculum, when it is approved, the teachers guide will follow to enable them know what they are going to teach and subsequently it will go into JAMB and NECO examinations.

    “The essence of this is to catch them young; by the time tourism is studied in all senior secondary schools across the country, it will go a long way to produce large workforce for the sector,” Narai said.

    NAN

  • NECO records 70 per cent pass

    NECO records 70 per cent pass

    THE National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the result of its 2017 June/July Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with 745,053 candidates – about 70.85 per cent – making five credits and above in English Language and Mathematics.

    Announcing the release of the results yesterday in Minna, its Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, said 1,051,472 candidates sat for the examination.

    He said 903,690 candidates made credit and above in English Language, 849,335 got credit and above in General Mathematics), 561,437 in Economics and 599,093 (Biology).

    Uwakwe added that the result showed 1.11 per cent improvement in candidates’ performance compared with 2016 results.

    Ekiti State, he said, emerged top in students’ performance with 85 per cent scoring five credits and above, including Mathematics and English.

    Edo and Bayelsa states came second and third with 84.61 and 84.52 per cent.

    The examination body said 276 schools were involved in mass cheating in 34 states and six schools have been derecognised for examination malpractice.

    Also, 23 supervisors that aided malpractice were blacklisted.

    Kebbi State top the chart in malpractice cases with 8,124 candidates involved and Bauchi and Borno states followed with 5,458 and 3,980 students.

    He noted that 50,586 candidates were involved in examination malpractices, which increased the rate of offence from 4.29 per cent in 2016 to 4.81 per cent in 2017.

    It represents 0.52 per cent in cases of malpractice compared with 2016.

    The registrar, who hailed the staff for their courage and determination in keeping the integrity of the examination body intact, stated that the standard of NECO will continue to remain uncompromised.

  • NECO releases June/July SSCE results

    NECO releases June/July SSCE results

    The National Examinations Council (NECO) on Thursday released the results of the 2017 June/July Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with Ekiti state emerging top in students’ performance with 85 per cent of its students scoring five credits and above including Mathematics and English.

    Edo and Bayelsa States came second and third with 84.61 per cent and 84.52 per cent respectively.

    NECO disclosed that 276 schools were involved in mass cheating in 34 states while six schools have been derecognized for examination malpractices.

    At least 23 supervisors that aided malpractices were also blacklisted.

    Kebbi top the chart in examination malpractice cases with 8,124 candidates involved in such acts while Bauchi and Borno states followed with 5,458 and 3,980 respectively.

    Announcing the release of the results in Minna, Niger State, the Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, said 745,053 out of 1,051,472  candidates  (70.85 per cent) got five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics.

    Uwakwe said 903,690 candidates got credit and above in English language, 849,335 in General Mathematics, 561,437 in Economics and 599,093 in Biology.

    He added that the 2017 result showed 1.11 per cent improvement in candidates’ performance compared to 2016 results.

     

     

     

  • NECO denies recruitment

    NECO denies recruitment

    The National Examination Council (NECO) has debunked rumours that it is recruiting workers, saying there is no immediate plan by the examination body to recruit.

    In a statement by the Head of Information Azeez Sani, NECO debunked an online publication which said the council is recruiting.

    According to him, the publication is the imagination of fraudsters; he urged the public to be wary of any recruitment scam.

    “The council enjoins the public to disregard the publication. Since the present Registrar assumed office on August 1 2016, no single person has been employed.

    “The council warns that the publication is the imagination of fraudsters, and states emphatically that it has not recruited, is not recruiting and has no immediate plans to recruit”.

    The statement added that NECO’s recruitment would reflect transparency and devoid of impunity.

  • Edo IDPs: Dogara urged to fulfill promise on payment of WAEC fees  

    Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has been urged to fulfill the promise he made last year to pay examination fees for Internally Displaced Persons in Edo State.

    Dogara had in February 2017 promised to pay WAEC, NECO and JAMB examination fees from his personal resources to enable children in the IDPs camp get university education.

    He made the promise when he attended church service at the camp.

    Coordinator of the camp, Pastor Solomon Folorusho, told newsmen yesterday that Speaker Dogara was yet to fulfill the promises he made.

    Pastor Folorunsho disclosed that about 200 IDPs would write this year’s NECO and WAEC examinations.

    Folorunsho said 65 of the IDPs who attended secondary school at the camp are to write the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examination this year.

    He said the IDPs have started farming for them not to completely depend on donation from people and complement whatever that is donated to the camp.

    “As the students are going to resume schools here, we have challenges of writing materials like notebooks, textbooks, mathematical sets calculators, pencils and biros among others.

    “We need those materials because 65 IDPS students are go to write JAMB while about 200 will write NECO and WASC this year. We need to prepare them for the examinations hence we called for financial assistance to see them through the examinations.

    “These children are Nigeria and we have to do every possible to make sure that they are educated though it is difficult for us. The state government has handed over blocks of classroom it built to us and Nigeria have been very generous to us in ensuring that the children actualise their dreams,” he said.

     

  • Prof reveals why students fail maths in WAEC, NECO

    Prof reveals why students fail maths in WAEC, NECO

    The Chief Executive Officer at the National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Prof. Stephen Onah, has blamed dismal performance of students in WAEC and NECO examinations in successive years on unqualified teachers in Mathematics.

    Onah disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that school proprietors draft non-professional teachers into teaching senior secondary students Mathematics for such important examinations.

    According to him, another factor responsible for poor performance of Nigerian students in Mathematics is the high standards maintained by WAEC and NECO with unqualified mathematics teachers teaching the subject.

    “The other factor is that because there are no enough hands to train students in this discipline persons from different areas of study even outside science-based areas are brought to teach the subject.

    “Because the WAEC and NECO which are of international standard will not lower their standard because Nigeria has not enough hands or qualified teachers to train its students.

    “They will always maintain their standard and so if we are not living up to that standard, that explains our poor performances,’’ he said

    The professor held the view that when the number of teachers is not equal to that of the students’ population effective teaching becomes a problem.

    He called for an increase in the incentives given to mathematics teachers, saying lack of motivation for teachers in critical subjects such as Mathematics is very common in nation’s system of education.

    Onah lauded the efforts of the current government at improving the quality and methodology of teaching at the different strata of education in the country, especially primary and secondary schools.

    The professor noted that there has been an improvement in both quality and quantity of teachers in Mathematics in the past two years,  but said a lot more can be done to shore up students’ performances in WAEC and NECO.

    “This is because there is some recognition; the teachers are beginning to see that they are being recognised for their work and they are putting in their very best.

    “Again the centre in its own way has been putting up programmes to facilitate the teaching of mathematics,” he said.

    He said the centre had developed mathematics modules on how best the subject should be taught and learned and this would be used throughout primary and secondary schools in the country.

    “ We have also produced a good number of textbooks in their simplified form which, if used or recommended at both the primary and secondary levels the learning of the subject would be better than what it is now”, the professor said.

  • Masari laments state of education in Katsina

    Masari laments state of education in Katsina

    ….says, 58,000 out of 250,000 passed WAEC, NECO in 3 years

    Governor Aminu Bello Masari has lamented the state of education in Katsina state Monday, warning that a lot needed to be done in order to salvage the situation.

    The Governor decried that, out of 250,000 students presented for WAEC and NECO exams between 2011 and 2013, only 58,000 made five credits, including English and Mathematics.

    Speaking during a Town Hall meeting with Katsina state indigenes resident in Kaduna, the governor lamented that education used to occupy a pride of place amongst Katsina people but the situation has now changed for the worse.

    ‘’There is no position in Nigeria that a Katsina indigene has not occupied. We are the only state that has produced the presidency of Nigeria three times. This is a foundation that was built by our parents but before our own eyes, we have left it to deteriorate,’’ Masari said.

    According to the governor, the situation is not peculiar to Katsina state alone but the whole of Northwest.

    ‘’Every survey or study that has been carried out by development partners or federal ministry of education show that the North West is the most backward in education and that is where poverty is the most severe,’’ he said, adding that ‘’the situation didn’t start now, it is as a result of past neglect.’’

    Governor Masari said that the highest that Katsina state has recorded in WAEC or NECO exams is 11%, that means those that have five credits, including English and Mathematics.

    Masari clarified that the 11% score is not limited to residents of Katsina state alone but all Katsina indigenes throughout the country. ‘’From 2011 to 2013, we have presented 250,000 candidates for WAEC and NECO out of which only 58,000 got five credits that comprise English and Mathematics,’’ he added.

    ‘’When we removed students in private schools in Katsina state and our indigenes that sat for the external exams in other states, the number of students who got five credits, including English and Mathematics in public schools which government is running  is about 340 to 500 students,’’ he added.

    The governor reiterated that 95% of Katsina indigenes live in the state, adding that if that  percentage can only produce less than 5000 students who are eligible go to tertiary institutions, then there is a big problem.

    Governor Masari said that, his administration has set up a committee that visited all the primary and secondary schools in Katsina State and the committee did a head count. He said that, there was a great disparity between what was on ground and the figures in the register.

    ‘’What the committee found in the register is that there are 1.2 million pupils in primary schools but when it conducted a head count, the committee counted only 728,000. In secondary schools, it saw that  378, 000 students were on the register but only 328, 000 were actually on ground,’’ he added.

    Masari recalled that UNICEF and federal ministry of education finished a survey in 2013. ‘’They found out that there are 80% of out of school children in all the states in the North West. Only 20% are attending primary schools. In contrast, southern states up to Kogi state have enrolment rate of 80%, ‘’ he said.

    According to him, the same UNICEF and DFID conducted another survey in the North West where they interviewed and assessed  primary school teachers. ‘’Most of them couldn’t  pass the exams of the primary four pupils that they were teaching,‘’ Masari said.

  • Candidates with awaiting result can write UTME – JAMB

    Candidates with awaiting result can write UTME – JAMB

    Candidates who are awaiting their O’Level results can seat for the unified tertiary matriculation examinations (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said.

    JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the clarification in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja.

    Dr. Benjamin also said the board would not confirm any admission for candidates with awaiting result.

    He said this would enable JAMB grant admission to only qualified candidates who are ready to advance their educational pursuit in tertiary institutions, conserve resources and also provide credible data.

    He advised candidates to upload their O’level results on JAMB’s website before the end of August this year.

    Mr. Fabian said: “Candidates with awaiting results are eligible to seat for our examination. They are eligible to register for our examination and seat for our examination. However, the board will not confirm any admission for any candidate with awaiting result.

    “All candidates who are desirous of tertiary education are to upload their O’level result on our site. Don’t forget, this O’level result is also a major requirement for admission among other requirements.

    “What we expect is that after obtaining your O’level result you go to our website you upload it. At the point of admission it is expected that they would have uploaded their O’level results on our website before the end of August.

    “We expect that by August, any candidate that does not have his or her result uploaded by end of August is not eligible for admission. We have met with WAEC, NECO and other examination bodies and told them this is the direction we are going.”

    He said the organisation discovered that most of the 1.5 million candidates who seat for its UTME annually do not have the necessary requirements for admission.

    “We have a reasonable number that are not actually qualified for this exam and are competing for spaces they are not qualified for.

    “We don’t want to be doing admission for candidates that are not qualified to be admitted. It is a waste of resources, it distort our data. We discovered overtime that most of the time when these candidates are admitted they don’t meet the requirements.

    “We want to be sure (of) who we are admitting into the tertiary institution so that at the end of the day if we say 3000 students are admitted in University A, Polytechnic A and Colleges of education A, our data will truly reflect 3000 candidate in that particular institution,” he said.

    He added that candidates, who are not computer literate, have a choice of applying for a UTME mock examination at a fee of N700, 00 nationwide.

    Benjamin explained that the UTME mock examination was optional and aimed at allowing students have a feel of the Computer Based Test (CBT), especially those ignorant of the CBT process.

     

     

  • 60.55 per cent obtains five NECO credits in Maths, English

    60.55 per cent obtains five NECO credits in Maths, English

    THE National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced its 2016 November/December examination results with 60.55 per cent of candidates making five credits and above, including Mathematics and English Language.
    Its Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Charles Uwakwe, said this known to reporters yesterday while announcing the results in Minna.
    Uwakwe said 47, 941 candidates registered for the external examination, but that 47, 118 of them sat for it.
    “The number of candidates that excelled with five credits and above, including Mathematics and English language is 28, 530, making 60.55 per cent,’’ he said.
    He added that 35, 744 (75.87 per cent) passed with five credits and above, irrespective of Mathematics and English language.
    The registrar said 7, 699 candidates (16.3 per cent) of the number that sat for the examination were involved in examination malpractice, which was lower than the 9, 940 candidates involved in various forms of examination malpractice in 2015.
    Uwakwe said the results announced 60 days after the conduct of the examination, was a landmark achievement for the council in the business of conducting “a hitch-free and credible examination in the country”.
    The NECO Registrar added that improved logistics arrangement ensured that appropriate standards and excellence were maintained from planning stage to the release of results.
    Uwakwe advised candidates to access results using their examination registration numbers and the council’s approved result checker on: www.mynecoexams.com.