No fewer than 1.2 million candidates registered for the ongoing 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO).
The NECO Registrar, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed this while monitoring the conduct of the examination in some schools in in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Friday, August 4, 2023.
Wushishi disclosed that out of the figure, 601,074 candidates are male while 584,814 are female.
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The NECO boss, who expressed satisfaction with the general conduct of the 2023 SSCE based on reports obtained from across the country, said the examination which would be concluded next week is the best organised in recent years.
He stated that various measures have been in place to check examination malpractice, adding that the measures have started yielding positive results.
Some of the schools monitored by the NECO boss were Airforce Military School, King and Queens Academy, and Emmanuel International College, all in Jos.
Wushishi had earlier monitored the conduct of the 2023 SSCE in Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, and Bauchi states.
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