No fewer than 818,492 candidates, who sat for the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) internal scored five credits and above in Mathematics and English, representing 60.26 percent, as the National Examinations Council (NECO) released the results on Wednesday.

The results were released 54 days after the last paper was written.

NECO Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, announced the release of the results in Minna, Niger State.

Giving a breakdown of performance, he said out of the 1,358,339 candidates who sat for the June/July exercise, 818,492, representing 60.26 percent scored 5 credits and above, including Mathematics and English.

Wushishi explained that the number of candidates with five credits and above, irrespective of Mathematics and English is 1,144,496 representing 84.26 percent.

“Number of candidates that registered for the examination is 1,367,210 representing 685,514 males and 681,696 females.

“Number of candidates that sat is 1,358,339 representing 680,292 males and 678,047 females.

“Number of candidates with five credits and above, including Mathematics and English is 818,492 representing 60.26%.

“Number of candidates with five credits and above, irrespective of Mathematics and English is 1,144,496 representing 84.26%,” he said.

Recall that the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination was conducted from Monday, June 16 to Friday, July 25, 2025.

Wushishi stated that the number of candidates with special needs was 1,622 out of which candidates with hearing impairment were 586 males and 355 females, and candidates with visual impairment were 111 males and 80 females.

On the number of examination malpractice cases, the registrar noted that in 2025 SSCE internal, the number of candidates involved in various forms of malpractice were 3,878, as against 10,094 in 2024, which shows a reduction of 61.58 percent.

He further disclosed that “during the conduct of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), 38 schools were found to have been involved in whole school (mass) cheating in 13 states. They will be invited to the council for discussion, after which appropriate sanctions will be applied.

“Similarly, nine (9) supervisors: 03 in Rivers, 01 in Niger, 03 in FCT, 01 in Kano and 01 in Osun states were recommended for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding and abetting, lateness, unruly behavior, assault, and insubordination.

“I wish to also draw your attention to a case in Lamorde Local Government (Area), Ad­amawa State involving eight (08) schools which were affected by a communal clash resulting in the disruption of our examina­tions from 7th to 25th July, 2025. A total of thirteen (13) subjects and twenty-nine (29) papers were involved.

“We have since commenced talks with the state government with a view to conducting the examinations for the affected schools.”

He announced that in view of the reviewed curriculum which is currently being implemented, NECO will conduct SSCE examination on only 38 subjects which will reduce the waiting time for the results.

While providing further breakdown of performance by states, he noted that Kano came top with 68,159, representing 5.020 percent candidates scoring five credits and above including English and mathematics.

Lagos came second in performance with 67,007 or 4.930 percent of candidates, scoring five credits and above including English and mathematics, while Oyo came third with 48,742 candidates scoring five credits and above including English and mathematics.

The least performing centre was Gabon with no candidate scoring five credits and above including English and mathematics.