No fewer than 1,376,391 candidates registered for the ongoing 2024 school-based Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO).
The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed this on Wednesday after monitoring the examination at some centres in Enugu, Enugu State capital.
It would be recalled that the 2024 NECO SSCE commenced on June 19 and will end on July 25, 2024, while candidates are expected to sit for the examination in 76 subjects.
In a press statement issued by the Acting Director, Information and Digital Communication, Azeez Sani, Wushishi expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination in the centres visited, disclosing that the examination was going on smoothly across the country.
He attributed the success to the various measures put in place to ensure a seamless excercise.
According to him, due to some innovations put in place, the menace of examination malpractice was on the decline.
The NECO Registrar admonished candidates to work hard in order to have a good grade in the examination, stressing that “there is no shortcut to success.”
He further disclosed that since the commencement of the examination, he had monitored the exercise in Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Imo and Anambra States to have first-hand information on the conduct of the examination.
According to him, in all the states visited so far, the critical stakeholders applauded NECO for the various measures put in place, which helped in making the conduct of 2024 SSCE seamless.
The Registrar disclosed that the examination was also being held in Togo, Benin Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Niger Republic, Ivory Coast and the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia.
Wushishi explained that the extension of NECO examinations to other countries indicated the acceptability of NECO Certificates across the world.
