The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the National Examinations Council (NECO) to move its exam scheduled for Saturday, July 9, as it clashed with the first day of eid-el-Adha (Sallah). MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, made this request in a statement on Sunday. It is understood that NECO has scheduled Data Processing (Practical) from […]
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The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examinations Council, NECO, Ibrahim Dantani, has disclosed that the council requires over N2 billion to settle the allowances of its over 4,000 staff on examination duties. Wushishi made it known while fielding questions from newsmen at the end of the opening of a workshop on Quality […]
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Professor Godswill Obioma, the Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO) and Chief Executive Officer has been murdered. It was gathered that gunmen stormed his residence Monday night, strangled him to death and left without taking anything. “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking anything,” the wife Elizabeth Obioma told Peoples […]
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The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, on Wednesday, ordered the National Examination Council (NECO) to present, store receipts for N7.2billion it paid for examination materials between January and June 2017 within 24 hours. The Committee chaired by Senator Matthew Urhoghide gave the directive following its consideration of a query raised to that effect by the […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Godswill Obioma as the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examination Council, NECO. Kokomansion understands that Obioma’s appointment followed the sack of Charles Uwakwe for various offences bordering on financial impropriety. Head, Information and Public Relations Division of NECO, Mr Azeez Sani, on Friday in […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that Prof Charles Uwakwe be removed as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). The President also sacked four other members of the management for various offences which bordered on financial impropriety. Kokomansion recalls that Uwakwe had since May 2018 been suspended by the Federal Government […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday, reduced the examination registration fees for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Senior Secondary and Basic Education Certificates. Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, disclosed this after the FEC meeting. According to him, the fee for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), has been reduced from N5,000 to […]
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The Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof Charles Uwakwe, has been suspended over alleged financial mismanagement and abuse of office. Also suspended are two deputy directors in charge of finance and procurement, respectively, in the council. Rumour had made the rounds that the three top officials of the council had been sacked, but a […]
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The National Examination Council, NECO, has on Tuesday released the 2017 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination results. Charles Uwakwe, Registrar of the Council, announced the results at its headquarters in Minna. Uwakwe said a total of 42, 985 candidates registered for the examination and 42, 429 wrote the examination in 28 subjects. He said […]
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The National Examinations Council (NECO), today (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. Prof. Charles Uwakwe, NECO Registrar, announced the results at the council headquarters […]
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