The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE internal) results, 54 days after the last written paper.
Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, NECO Registrar, announced the results at a press conference in Minna, Niger State, on Wednesday.
He said that out of the 1,358,339 candidates who sat for the June/July exercise, 818,492, or 60.26 percent, scored 5 credits or higher, including Mathematics and English.
Wushishi claimed that the number of candidates with five credits or more, regardless of mathematics or English, is 1,144,496, accounting for 84.26 percent.
He said, “The number of candidates that registered for the examination is 1,367,210, representing 685,514 males and 681,696 females.
“The number of candidates that sat is 1,358,339, representing 680,292 males and 678,047 females.
“The number of candidates with five credits and above, including mathematics and English, is 818,492, representing 60.26%.
“The number of candidates with five credits and above, irrespective of mathematics and English, is 1,144,496, representing 84.26%.”
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The 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination was conducted from Monday, June 16, to Friday, July 25, 2025.
Wushishi reported that there were 1,622 candidates with special needs, including 586 males and 355 females with hearing impairments and 111 males and 80 females with visual impairments.
In terms of examination malpractice instances, the registrar stated that in the 2025 SSCE internal, the number of candidates implicated in various forms of “malpractice was 3,878, as against 10,094 in 2024, which shows a reduction of 61.58 percent.”
He added, “During the conduct of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination, 38 schools were found to have been involved in whole-school (mass) cheating in 13 states. They will be invited to the Council for discussion, after which appropriate sanctions will be applied.
“Similarly, nine supervisors—three in Rivers, one in Niger, three in FCT, one in Kano, and one in Osun States—were recommended for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding and abetting, lateness, unruly behavior, assault, and insubordination.
“I wish to also draw your attention to a case in Lamorde Local Government, Adamawa State, involving eight schools that were affected by a communal clash resulting in the disruption of our examinations from 7th to 25th July, 2025. A total of thirteen subjects and twenty-nine papers were involved.
“We have since commenced talks with the state government with a view to conducting the examinations for the affected schools.”
He declared that, in light of the modified curriculum, which is already being implemented, NECO will administer the SSCE examination on only 38 subjects, reducing the wait time for results.
While providing a breakdown of performance by state, he stated that Kano came in first with 68,159, representing 5.020 percent of candidates scoring five credits or higher, including English and mathematics.
Lagos finished in second place, with 67,007 applicants, or 4.930 percent, scoring five credits or higher, including English and mathematics, while Oyo came in third, with 48,742 candidates scoring five credits or higher.
Gabon was the lowest-performing center, with no candidate earning five credits or more, including English and mathematics.
The Examination Council recently announced the transition from the Paper-Pencil Test model (PPT) to the Computer-Based Test Model (CBM), with a number of private and public institutions participating in the first phase of the shift.
