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NECO reschedules 2023 common entrance examination

April 26, 2023 No Comments

The National Examinations Council on Wednesday April 26, announced that it rescheduled the 2023 National Common Entrance Examinations to give states with low number of registrants, the opportunity to register more candidates.

In a statement issued in Niger State, the examination body noted that the NCCE examination for admission into Federal Unity Colleges would now hold on Saturday 3rd June 2023 instead of Saturday, April 29, 2023 as earlier scheduled.

The statement partly read,

“The Examination was rescheduled to give states with low registration of candidates the opportunity to register their candidates for the examination.

“All candidates, parents, guardians, schools and relevant stakeholders are therefore enjoined to take note of the new date for the examination. The registration of candidates will continue till the new date of the examination”.

Lifestyle

Suspected armed robbers invade UI staff quarters, kill NECO official

November 4, 2022 No Comments

Armed robbers invaded the staff quarters of the University of Ibadan and killed an official of the National Examinations Council (NECO) Mr Vincent Odinko.

The Nation reported on Friday, November 4, that the gunmen broke into the boys quarters (BQ) of a staff building where the man lived with his family and shot him dead.

Though details of how he was killed were unavailable as at press time, it was learnt that the robbers took away the laptop and mobile phones of the occupants.

The deceased worked in the SSCE Internal Unit, Ibadan branch of NECO while his wife is said to be a member of staff of the university.

Spokesperson of the State Police Command, Adewale Osifeso, who confirmed the incident, said they have launched an investigation to track down Odinko’s killers.

He was said to be working on his laptop when the armed robbers broke into his home last Friday night.

A member of the university community who spoke to The Nation in confidence described the development as “extremely disturbing.”

The resident wondered why an institution with perimeter fencing, good security architecture and personnel can be experiencing security breaches that even led to killing.

Lifestyle

Islamic group calls on NECO to move exams from Sallah Day

July 4, 2022 No Comments

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has told the National Examinations Council (NECO) to move its exam scheduled for Saturday, July 9, as it clashed with the first day of eid-el-Adha (Sallah).

MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, made this request in a statement on Sunday.

NECO has scheduled Data Processing (Practical) from 10am to 1pm this Saturday.

Akintola admitted that the Islamic group believes NECO did not intentionally fix the examination that day.

“We are fully aware that the clash was not deliberate as NECO had actually demonstrated goodwill by setting aside a whole week for Salah celebrations (Monday, 11th July to Friday 15th July) and this reflected in its timetable,” the statement read.

He added, “We, therefore, appeal to the NECO authorities to kindly shift the examination of that day alone (Saturday 9th July, 2022) to another date in order to enable its teeming Muslim candidates sit for their examinations.

“The paper which was originally fixed for Salah day may be taken on Thursday 14th July, 2022 which is one of the days set aside by NECO for the Salah holiday. MURIC wishes NECO authorities and staff as well as all Nigerians a happy Salah.”

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NECO Extends SSCE 2022 Registration When Exam Commences June 27

May 30, 2022 No Comments

The National Council on Examinations (NECO) has extended the deadline for candidate registration for the 2022 Higher School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school-based candidates.

The deadline that was previously set for Monday, May 30, has now been extended to midnight on Monday, June 20, 2022.

Azeez Sani, the head of the examining body’s information and public relations division, announced the extension in a statement on Monday.

However, Sani did not give specific reasons for the extension, but insisted that the new deadline will be sacrosanct.

The release added that the exam is scheduled to begin on June 27, 2022 and end on Friday, August 12, 2022.

The statement is read in parts; “State ministries of education, directors, commanders and all stakeholders are urged to note that there will be no further extension after that.

“The 2022 NECO High School Certificate Examination (SSCE) will begin on June 27, 2022 and end on Friday, August 12, 2022.”

The statement further noted that candidates must be tested on 76 subjects in the exam.

School-based candidates are currently taking part in the ongoing West African Higher School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) which is conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

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Politics

NECO Registrar, Godswill Obioma assassinated

June 1, 2021 No Comments

Registrar of the National Examination Council, (NECO), Professor Godswill Obioma has been killed by unknown gunmen, Peoples Gazette reports.

The assailants broke into his home on Monday night, strangling him in what his wife suspected to be an assassination.

“The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples Gazette by telephone on Tuesday morning.

Weeping profusely, Mrs Obioma said her husband had just returned to Minna from a trip to Abuja when the armed men, lurking in his compound, descended on him and strangled him.

A police spokesman did not immediately return a request seeking comments about the development.

Mr Obioma, 67, was appointed head of NECO barely a year ago on May 14, 2020. He hailed from Abia in Nigeria’s Igbo-dominated South-East region.

The incident comes barely a day after Ahmed Gulak, an APC chieftain was killed by gunmen in Owerri, Imo State.

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NECO postpones exams indefinitely.

October 25, 2020 No Comments

The National Examinations Council has postponed the ongoing nationwide Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations indefinitely due to the current security challenges, occasion by the #EndSARS protests.

This was contained a statement signed by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division NECO, Azeez Sani, and made available to newsmen in Minna on Sunday.

Sani said the #EndSARS protests disrupted the smooth conduct of the examinations in some parts of the country.

He said, “The Governing Board of the National Examinations Council at its Special Meeting held on Thursday, 22nd October, 2020 reviewed the on-going 2020 SSCE (internal) nationwide. The Council had in a press release, dated 21st October 2020, informed the general public of rescheduling some papers of the 2020 on-going SSCE.

Arising from that meeting, today (Sunday) the Governing Board resolved that the 2020 SSCE (Internal) be postponed indefinitely in view of the current security challenges, occasioned by the ENDSARS protests, which disrupted the smooth conduct of the examinations in some parts of the country.