No fewer than 40 schools across 17 states of the Federation were found to have been involved in mass cheating in the 2024 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) internal, NewsSpecng learnt.
NECO’s Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Wushishi also said 8,437 candidates were involved in various forms of malpractice, but stressed that there was a 30.1 per cent reduction in the rate of malpractice.
Wushishi said
those found culpable will face a panel and appropriate sanctions will be applied against them.
Also, Wushishi said the council blacklisted 21 supervisors in 12 states and de-recognised one school in Ekiti State for alleged mass cheating in two core subjects and one science subject.
The supervisors, the registrar said, were recommended for blacklisting for alleged poor supervision, aiding and abetting, abscondment, extortion, drunkenness, and negligence.
The registrar said 2,267 candidates with special needs sat for the examinations.
He announced that “1,103 candidates with hearing impairment, 348 candidates with visual impairment, 342 candidates with albinism, 237 candidates with autism, and 236 candidates with low vision sat for the 2024 NECO internal examinations”.
Wushishi said 269 candidates wrote the examinations from outside the country, including Benin Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger Republic, Togo, Cote D’Ivoire, and Saudi Arabia.
The Southwest led the regions with 15.487 per cent in the standard educational performance ranking among candidates with five Credits and above, including English and Mathematics, while the South came last with 5.666 per cent.
The registrar said NECO was considering increasing the allowances of its examiners while mulling over increasing the registration fees of its examinations to enable the council to meet increasing needs.
He added that the candidates could access their results on the NECO website using their examination registration numbers.
