Tag: NECO
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Neco prepared to leave Premier League club
Neco Williams is prepared to leave Liverpool in 2022. The Athletic says Williams is expected to ‘move on’ from Liverpool within the next 12 months, in search of regular game time. The 20-year-old has made six appearances for the first-team this season, but has struggled to feature on a consistent basis due to Trent Alexander-Arnold…
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Northern states owe NECO N2.8bn in unpaid examination fees, says Registrar
Northern states’ governments are indebted to the National Examinations Council NECO to the tune of N 2.8 billion, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, Registrar and Chief Executive, NECO, has said. “State governments offer to pay examination fees for candidates from their states but when it comes to the actual payment, they don’t do it, and that has…
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NECO releases 2021 examination results
The National Examination Council (NECO) on Friday announced the release of the results of the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) conducted nationwide in July. NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dantali Wushishi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Minna. He said that out of 1,233,631 candidates who registered; 1,226,631 actually sat for the…
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Kaduna: Hoodlums rob NECO official, mistake exam materials for money
Bandits have stormed Government Secondary School, Ungwan Sarki in Kaduna North Local Government Area of the state, carting away National Examination Council question papers. It was gathered that the thugs had trailed a NECO supervisor from one of the new generation banks in town into the school. The gunmen, it was further gathered, pounced on…
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Buhari appoints substantive NECO registrar
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Professor Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). According to a letter signed by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, the appointment which is for an initial tenure of five years takes effect from July 12. Until his appointment as NECO boss, Wushishi…
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We’ll not extend registration for 2021 SSCE internal candidates – NECO
The Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani has disclosed that the National Examinations Council (NECO) will not extend the registration period for the 2021 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) internal candidates. Mr. Sani in a statement on Wednesday said that the registration exercise which started on 31st March will close on Friday,…
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JUST IN: NECO gets Acting Registrar days after Obioma’s death
The Governing Board of the National Examinations Council (NECO), has approved the appointment of Mr Ebikibina Ogborodi as the Acting Registrar/Chief Executive of the council. The approval is contained in a statement signed by Mr Azeez Sani, the council’s Head of Information and Public Relations Division on Thursday in Abuja. Ogborodi’s appointment followed the death…
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Obioma: NECO Registrar not murdered by gunmen – Police
The Niger State Police Command has said that late Prof. Godswill Obioma, the NECO Registrar, was not murdered by unknown gunmen in Minna. The command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Wasiu Abiodun, disclosed this in a statement issued in Minna on Tuesday. Abiodun said that the story going on that the late Obioma was murdered…
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NECO Registrar: My father was not murdered – Prof Obioma’s son
Prince Godswill Obioma, son to the late Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof Godswill Obioma has countered reports that his father was murdered. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Prince Obioma as saying his father Prof Obioma died of an undisclosed illness, according to a letter he addressed to the Nigerian examination body. Following the death of…
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Senate sustains AuGF query against NECO over N6.5bn contract awards
The Senate has sustained a query issued against the National Examination Council by the Auditor-General for the Federation, for allegedly awarding N6.5bn contracts without following due process. The query is contained in the AuGF 2017 report already being considered by the Senate Public Accounts Committee. The contracts, according to the AuGF, involved the printing of…