NECO has released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination results, revealing that over 818,000 students achieved the golden standard of five credits including Mathematics and English.
Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, NECO‘s Registrar, announced the results at a press conference in Minna on Wednesday, exactly 54 days after students finished their final papers.
Out of 1.36 million registered candidates, 818,492 students—that’s 60.26%—secured the crucial five credits including both Maths and English that universities and employers typically require.
When you remove the English requirement, the success rate jumps to 84.26%, with over 1.1 million students getting five credits overall.
The gender split was remarkably even: 685,514 male students and 681,696 female students registered, showing education equality in action.
NECO didn’t forget students with special needs. Over 1,600 candidates with hearing and visual impairments took the exams, proving that determination knows no boundaries.
This included 586 male and 355 female students with hearing challenges, plus 111 male and 80 female students with visual impairments.
Here’s some genuinely good news: exam malpractice crashed by over 61% compared to last year. NECO recorded just 3,878 cases in 2025, down from a whopping 10,094 in 2024.
Wushishi credited tighter monitoring and better security measures for this dramatic improvement.
However, 38 schools across 13 states still got caught in mass cheating schemes and will face the music soon.
Nine exam supervisors from Rivers, Niger, FCT, Kano, and Osun states are also headed for the blacklist after helping students cheat or failing to do their jobs properly.
Not everything went smoothly. A communal clash in Adamawa State’s Lamorde Local Government disrupted exams for eight schools between July 7-25, affecting 13 subjects and 29 papers.
NECO is now working with state officials to reschedule these crucial exams.
The June-July examination period ran from June 16 to July 25, giving students nearly six weeks to prove their academic mettle.
