NECO Withholds Results Of Niger State Candidates

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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has withheld results of candidates from Niger State who sat for the 2016 June/ July Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).

The council took its action on the reason of the state government failing to remit fees to the examination body.

The unfortunate incident blew open when candidates from Niger State, who had been trying to access their results online, could not, while their counterparts from other states have been having no  problems  accessing their results through the same means.

Parents and their wards are now confused on how to remedy the situation in order to meet up with this year’s admission to higher institutions, especially if the results are not eventually released before admission processes close for the new academic session.

 

The state Commissioner for Education, Hajiya Fatima Madugu, confirmed that the state government had issues to settle with NECO which invariably might have prompted the withholding of the last examination results.

The commissioner however argued that current financial challenges which may have prompted the state government to withhold monies from parents to have their wards write the last WAEC and NECO SSCE is not peculiar to Niger state alone. She assured that the state will settle the debt with the two examination bodies.

“About 5, 000 candidates  wrote the exams and we are indebted to NECO to the tune of about N200 million and hope that by next week after the FAAC meeting we will meet with NECO and see how we can solve the issues,” she said.

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