NECO releases 2025 SSCE outcomes, 60% cross fee
The Nationwide Examinations Council (NECO) has launched the outcomes of the 2025 Senior Faculty Certificates Examination (SSCE) Inside, revealing that 818,492 candidates, representing 60.26%, out of 1,358,339 who sat for the June/July exams handed with 5 credit together with English and Arithmetic.
The announcement was made on Wednesday in Minna by NECO’s Registrar and Chief Government, Professor Dantani Wushishi, who described the discharge as a reaffirmation of the council’s dedication to high quality training, benefit, integrity, and nationwide improvement.
Professor Wushishi mentioned the discharge of the outcomes was the end result of a rigorous evaluation course of, describing it as a reaffirmation of NECO’s dedication to benefit, integrity, and nationwide improvement.
He additional counseled President Tinubu for creating an enabling setting that allowed the examination physique to uphold credibility and transparency.
Efficiency statistics
Offering an in depth breakdown, Wushishi revealed that NECO launched the outcomes 54 days after the ultimate written paper.
- A complete of 1,367,210 candidates registered for the examination, comprising 685,514 males and 681,696 females.
- Out of those, 1,358,339 candidates sat for the exams.
- 818,492 candidates (60.26%) obtained at the least 5 credit together with Arithmetic and English.
- 1,144,496 candidates (84.26%) scored 5 credit and above regardless of Arithmetic and English.
- On special-needs candidates, he disclosed that 1,622 college students had been accommodated, together with 586 males and 355 females with listening to impairment, in addition to 191 candidates with visible impairment.
Breakdown by states
The Registrar additionally gave insights into state-level efficiency:
Kano State emerged as the highest performer with 68,159 candidates (5.02%) scoring 5 credit and above, together with Arithmetic and English.
Lagos State adopted intently with 67,007 candidates (4.93%).
Oyo State got here third with 48,742 candidates.
However, the least performing centre was Gabon, the place no candidate recorded 5 credit together with Arithmetic and English.
Decline in malpractice instances
The Registrar introduced a major discount in examination malpractice in comparison with the earlier yr.
“In 2025 SSCE inside, the variety of candidates concerned in numerous types of malpractice was 3,878, as towards 10,094 in 2024, which confirmed a discount of 61.58 per cent,” Wushishi mentioned.
Nonetheless, he famous that 38 colleges throughout 13 states had been discovered responsible of whole-school dishonest, including that they might be summoned for discussions earlier than sanctions are utilized.
He additionally revealed that 9 supervisors in Rivers, Niger, FCT, Kano, and Osun states had been advisable for blacklisting as a consequence of poor supervision, aiding malpractice, insubordination, and unruly behaviour.
Disruptions in Adamawa
Wushishi highlighted a communal conflict in Lamorde Native Authorities, Adamawa State, which disrupted examinations between July 7 and July 25, 2025.
“I want to additionally draw your consideration to a case in Lamorde Native Authorities, Adamawa, involving eight colleges which had been affected by a communal conflict. This resulted within the disruption of our examinations from seventh to twenty fifth July, 2025. A complete of 13 topics and twenty-nine papers had been concerned,” he defined.
He added that talks with the Adamawa State Authorities are ongoing to allow affected college students to finish their examinations.
Wushishi disclosed that NECO is now implementing a revised curriculum which reduces the variety of examinable topics to 38. This, he defined, is aimed toward decreasing the ready interval for outcome processing and bettering general effectivity.
