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From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
No fewer than 74,819 candidates are participating in the on-going 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for External candidates nationwide being organized by the National Examination Council (NECO).
The 2023 SSCE External started on Monday, November 20, 2023, and will end on December 20, 2023. Candidates are writing 29 different subjects.
NECO spokesman, Azeez Sani, in a statement, yesterday, indicated that NECO Registrar, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, confirmed the figure while monitoring the examination at Government Science Secondary School, Gombe.
Prof. Wushishi who expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the candidates at the centre, disclosed that reports received from the various centres across the country indicated that the examination was going on smoothly.
He admonished candidates to shun examination malpractice, noting that various measures have been put in place to check the menace of examination malpractice.
The Registrar also confirmed that the Council has put in place necessary measures to ensure that the examination is seamless.
