NECO: 33,470 CANDIDATES CHEAT, 12 SCHOOLS DERECOGNISED AS COUNCIL RELEASES RESULTS
By Tina George, Minna The National Examinations Council, NECO, has revealed that 33,470 candidates that sat for the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, were involved in various forms of malpractices. The Registrar of the Council, Professor Godswill Obioma, who announced the results at the NECO headquarters in Minna on Wednesday, also said that 12 schools in six states have been derecognised for their involvement in examination malpractice, while 24 supervisors were blacklisted for various offences. According to him, the offences of the supervisors ranges from poor supervision, aiding and abetting and connivance with non-candidates to write answers on chalkboard. The schools blacklisted for two years include four in Adamawa, two in Kastina, two in Niger, one each in Taraba and Federal Capital Territory, FCT, adding that the malpractice by the candidates represents 2.61 per cent, which is a drop to the 3.53 per cent of malpractice cases recorded in 2019. The Registrar attri