The National Examinations Council (NECO) on Wednesday released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results, with Kano, Lagos, and Oyo states emerging as the best-performing centres, even as the council vowed to sanction schools and supervisors indicted for examination malpractice.
Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, who announced the results in Minna, said the council recorded significant improvement in performance and a sharp drop in malpractice cases compared to the previous year.
According to him, 1,358,339 candidates sat for the June/July examinations out of the 1,367,210 registered candidates. Of this figure, 818,492 candidates (60.26%) obtained five credits and above, including Mathematics and English, while 1,144,496 candidates (84.26%) secured five credits and above irrespective of the two subjects.
“Kano topped with 68,159 candidates (5.02%) scoring five credits and above, including English and Mathematics. Lagos followed with 67,007 (4.93%), while Oyo came third with 48,742 candidates,” Prof. Wushishi disclosed.
He further revealed that 1,622 candidates with special needs participated in the examination, including 941 with hearing impairments and 191 with visual impairments.
On malpractice, the NECO boss said the council recorded 3,878 cases in 2025, a 61.58% reduction compared to 10,094 cases in 2024.
However, he disclosed that 38 schools across 13 states were involved in mass cheating and would face sanctions after due deliberations with NECO.
In addition, nine supervisors from Rivers (3), FCT (3), Niger (1), Kano (1), and Osun (1) were recommended for blacklisting for offences ranging from aiding and abetting malpractice to lateness, assault, and insubordination.
Prof. Wushishi also highlighted disruptions in Lamorde Local Government Area of Adamawa State, where communal clashes affected eight schools, disrupting 29 examination papers across 13 subjects.
He assured that NECO was already working with the state government to reschedule examinations for the affected schools.
The registrar attributed the council’s efficiency to the support of President Bola Tinubu, the Ministry of Education, the National Assembly, and state governments.
“Your leadership, vision, and unwavering commitment fuel our drive to deliver fair, credible, and timely results for our nation’s students,” he said while commending the Federal Government.
NECO also announced that it had streamlined the examination curriculum to 38 subjects in line with ongoing educational reforms, a move it said would shorten the waiting period for results.
Meanwhile, the council named Gabon as the worst-performing centre, with no candidate recording five credits and above, including Mathematics and English.
The 2025 SSCE internal examination was conducted between June 16 and July 25, 2025, with the results released within 54 days — a timeline Prof. Wushishi described as “a reaffirmation of NECO’s commitment to credibility and excellence in Nigeria’s educational system.”
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