THE National Examinations Council on Thursday released the June / July 2017 Senior Secondary Schools Examination results.
The Council says out of the 1, 051 , 472 who sat for the examinations , only 745 , 053 of the candidates got at least five credits including Mathematics and English Language.
The Registrar of the Council , Prof. Charles Uwakwe , while announcing the results at the headquarters in Minna , Niger State , said a total number of 50 , 586 candidates (4 . 81 percent) were involved in examination malpractices , representing a 0 . 52 percent increment compared to 2016.
Uwakwe said the comparative analysis of candidates’ performance in the examination for 2016 ( 69 . 74 % ) and 2017 ( 70 . 85% ) shows that there is a 1. 11 percent improvement in the general performance of candidates.
According to him , out of the 1 , 055 , 988 candidates who registered for the examinations in Nigeria and other countries only 1, 051 , 472 sat and only 745 , 053 ( 70 . 85 percent) got 5 credits and above including Mathematics and English Language.
“ We have 50 , 586 ( 4. 81 percent) candidates involved in examination malpractice and this represents 0 . 52 % increment compared with 2016 that had 43, 905 cases (4 . 29 % ) .
“ A total of 276 schools were involved in mass cheating in 34 states and 6 schools have been de -recognised with 23 supervisors blacklisted for aiding malpractice . ”