By Ngozi Nwankwo
National Examination Council, NECO, has officially announced the release of the results of the year 2023 National Common Entrance Examination, NCEE.
The National Common Entrance Examination,NCEE,is for admission into Junior Secondary School,JSS 1,of Federal Unity Colleges.
Announcing the results in Abuja, on Monday, the Permanent Secretary of Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Andrew David Adejo, said that, the NCEE is a highly competitive examination which is administered every year to Nigerian children both at home and abroad who desire to gain admission into any of the one hundred and ten (110) Unity Schools spread across all parts of the country.
It was gathered this year’s edition of the examination was written on Saturday 3rd June, 2023 in Nigeria, as well as Benin Republic and Togo and I am pleased to present the following major highlights:
Adejo said total of seventy two thousand, eight hundred and sixty five (72,865) pupils registered compared to 71,738 for 2022 with Lagos State having the highest number of 18,644 and Taraba with the lowest of 102.
He further said that with the 38,801 female registrants against 34,064 males, sixty nine thousand, eight hundred and twenty nine (69,829) pupils sat for the examination;
Three thousand and thirty six (3,036) pupils were absent; Seventy six (76) pupils had the highest score of 203; The lowest score was 01 mark and this was scored by six (6) pupils.
He explained that the admission criteria for selection of qualified candidates into Federal Unity Colleges remained 60% Merit; 30% Equality of State, and 10% Exigency.
The Permanent Secretary said the Federal Ministry of Education will ensure that all admission processes are concluded timely and in line with the above criteria.
“As you are all aware, our Federal Unity Colleges have become the first port of call for most parents in the country. Although we are currently facing challenges of infrastructural development, feeding and teacher quality, I want to assure you that the Federal government is doing its best to ensure better conditions for effective teaching and learning in our schools.
“I will like to use this opportunity to appreciate the Governor of Zamfara state for the appreciable increase in registrants from 1,000+ to 2.091 and his current efforts to off-set the debts owed NECO. I also want to urge Adamawa, Bayelsa and Kebbi to register more pupils for the NCEE,” he said.