The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, joined the Federal Ministry of Education in a suit filed by a Seventh-day Adventist member seeking to stop the conduct of examinations and elections on Saturdays. The court also joined the Council of Legal Education to the suit following an application by...
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Witnesses from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, INEC and NECO have testified for Sen. Lawal Adamu-Usman at the Elections Petitions Court in Kaduna. The witnesses told the court presided by Justice HH Kereng, that the academic credentials presented by the Senator representing Kaduna North were valid. Also, an official of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government has banned underage children from participating in the National Common Entrance Examination for admission into the Unity Schools across the country. It also directed the National Examination Council (NECO) to put strict measures in place to prevent the underage persons from...
The Gombe State Government has approved N417 million for payment of external examination fees for 21,988 final year students of secondary school across the state. The Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Maigari disclosed this at the end of the 29th Session of the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has rescheduled the 2023 National Common Entrance Examinations (NCEE) which is conducted for admission into Federal Unity Colleges from Saturday 29th April, 2023 to Saturday 3rd June 2023. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head, Information and...
The National Industrial Court has ordered the National Examinations Council (NECO) to reinstate a dismissed member of staff, Malam Ibrahim Musa . The reinstatement of the claimant as ordered by the court, was to the position or rank he ought to be at the judgment date. Delivering judgment, Justice...
The Adamawa government on Monday says it will sponsor 41,668 indigent students for the 2023 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and National Examination Commission (NECO). The government would also sponsored indigent candidates of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB). The state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital...
Gombe gubernatorial candidate of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Khamisu Mailantarki, has offered to pay for external examinations of students of the State if elected. Mailantarki, a former Member of House of Representatives from Gombe State, stated this during the inauguration of the NNPP Gubernatorial Campaign Council, on Saturday...
The Niger state Ministry of Education says it has paid N433 million for the settlement of backlog debt owe to examination conducting organisations by the state. The organisation include the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) National Examination Council (NECO), and National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB). Others are...
Stakeholders in the education sector have been urged to take collective responsibility to rid the country of bad habits of wanting to cut corners during examinations. The Registrar, National Examination Council (NECO), Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, made the appeal at a One-Day Sensitisation Workshop on Examination Malpractice in Abuja on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Services, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere has accused school authorities in the country of conniving with Examination officers to help candidates cheat in examination. Ihonvbere who disclosed this at a National Sensitisation workshop on Examination Malpractice in Nigeria...
Stakeholders in the education sector in the North-East have said that continuous lowering of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) cut-off mark would encourage competition and educational development in the country. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of tertiary institutions of learning and other stakeholders on July...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has denied fixing any examination for Saturday 9th July, 2022. This is contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the Council has scheduled examination for above date, which is Sallah Day (Eid- Adha). The NECO Head of Information and...
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has announced the release of the 2022 results of the National Common Entrance Examination (NECO) held on May 7 into the 104 unity colleges across the country. Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mr David Adejo in...
The Ior Gboko Foundation (IGF), has commissioned a standard Business Centre in Gboko, Benue state, to assist indigent candidates wishing to register for their West African Examinations Council (WAEC) school certificate and National Examinations Council (NECO) and the Unified Tertiary Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has kicked against the 25% deduction from the Treasury Single Account (TSA) of the National Examinations Council (NECO) by the Federal Government. The union, in a letter to the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu,...
A federal lawmaker, Rep. Yusuf Gagdi (APC – Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam), has earmarked the sum of N160 million to register his constituents for the 2022 WAEC and NECO examinations. Gagdi made the disclosure while interacting with newsmen at the distribution of his empowerment items to constituents on Monday in Pankshin. The...
The former Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Adedibu Ojerinde, who is standing trial in an alleged N5 billion fraud, has opted for a plea bargain with the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) in order to get a soft landing. At...
The Kano State Government says the state recorded 95 per cent success in the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations in 2021, with over 80,000 students obtaining nine credits. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Sanusi Sa’idu-Kiru, made the announcement at a news conference on the achievements recorded by the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has begun moves to make its examinations compulsory in schools across the 36 states of the federation. The council, in a statement by its Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Mr Azeez Sani, said it has secured the...