The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the internal Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) results with a two per cent increase of candidates who made five credits and above in all subjects.
The registrar said 1,209,992 out of 1,221,447 sat for the examinations across the country, adding that 973,331 representing 82.68 per cent made credit and above in the English Language while 1,060,100 representing 90.08 per cent made credit and above in Mathematics.
The council also derecognises 12 schools for their involvement in mass cheating and whole school cases of malpractice.
The NECO Registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma, while announcing the release of SSCE internal results at the NECO Headquarters in Minna, Niger State, said the schools derecognized include four schools in Adamawa, two in Kaduna, two in Kastina, Two in Niger, one in Taraba and one in FCT.
He also said that 24 supervisors were blacklisted for various offences ranging from poor supervision, aiding and abetting, connivance with non-candidates to write answers on the chalkboard.
