- The National Examinations Commission (NECO) released its 2025 SSCE results, with 60.26% of candidates scoring at least five credits, including mathematics and English.
- Of the 1,358,339 candidates taking the exam, 84.26% received five credits, regardless of both subjects. NECO also recorded a 61.58% drop in malfeasance cases compared to 2024.
The National Examinations Commission (NECO) released the results of the 2025 Advanced School Certificate Examination (SSCE internal) 54 days after the last paper.
Registrar Ibrahim Wushishi announced that out of 1,358,339 candidates, 818,492 (60.26%) received five credits, including mathematics and English, while 1,144,496 (84.26%) received five credits, earning five credits.
A total of 1,622 special needs candidates took the exam and recorded 3,878 malfeasance cases – a 61.58% decrease compared to 2024.
The exam is held between June 16 and July 25, 2025.
He added…
“During the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination, 38 schools were found cheating across schools in 13 states. They will be invited to the Council for discussion, after which appropriate sanctions will apply.
“Similarly, nine supervisors: three of the rivers, one in Niger, three in the FCT, one in Kano State and one in Oxen State, blacklisting is recommended due to poor supervision, help and teaching to, late, late, unruly, attack, attack and people of different ages.
“I also want to focus your attention on the case of the Ramod Local Government, where the state of Adamawa involves eight schools that are affected by the public conflict, resulting in our test interruptions from July 7 to July 25, 2025. There are 13 subjects and twenty-nine papers in total.
“I also want to focus your attention on the case of the Ramod Local Government, where the state of Adamawa involves eight schools that are affected by the public conflict, resulting in our test interruptions from July 7 to July 25, 2025. There are 13 subjects and twenty-nine papers in total.
“Since then, we started to hold talks with the state government to take exams for affected schools.”
