Ekiti State Leads As NECO Releases June/July 2016 SSCE Results |PoliFocus

The National Examination Council NECO on Friday released the results of the Senior School Certificate Examination it conducted in and outside the country between June and July this year, with Ekiti State having the best performance with 96.48 percent followed by Katsina State with 72.59 percent.


Since the assumption of office of Governor Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State has been witnessing steady improvement in the education sector, with the State coming from 26 percent performance in the West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination in 2014 to 36.5 percent in 2015 and 42 percent in 2016, coming 11th in 2016 in the federation and 2nd in the Southwest. In NECO, Ekiti came 10th with 74.5 percent performance in 2015.

The new Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Professor Charles Uwake, who released the result for the first time in Minna, Niger state, said of the 1,022,474 candidates that sat for the examination, 905,011 recorded credit and above in five subjects.

He said the results showed a remarkable improvement in the performance of candidates that sat for the examination.

“An analysis of the result across the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory FCT indicated that Ekiti state topped all others with 96.485 of its candidates that sat for the examination coming out victorious while Edo state was second with 96.31% while  Abias and Kogi were joint third,” the Registrar said.

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