NECO releaaes 2025 SSCE external exam result + how to check (GCE)

NECO has released the 2025 SSCE External results with 71.63% earning five credits including English and Maths.

NECO’s Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim-Wushishi, dusclosed this on Wednesday at a press briefing at the Council’s headquarters in Minna.

Prof. Ibrahim-Wushishi said the examination ran from 26 November to 13 December 2025 and marking took place from 5 January to 21 January 2026.

He added that NECO released the results 52 days after the final Written paper.

NECO recorded 96,979 registrations for the 2025 SSCE External examination with 51,823 males (53.43 per cent); and 45,156 females (46.56 per cent).

Of that figure, 95,160 candidates sat for the exam with 50,785 males (53.36 per cent); and 44,375 females (46.63 per cent).

For English Language, 93,425 candidates sat for the paper. NECO reported that 73,167 candidates (78.32 per cent) earned credit and above.

For Mathematics, 93,330 candidates took the paper. NECO said 85,256 candidates (91.35 per cent) earned credit and above.

Also, 68,166 candidates (71.63 per cent) earned five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics; 82,082 candidates (86.26 per cent) earned five credits and above, without the English-and-Maths.

Prof. Ibrahim-Wushishi explained that the SSCE External exam gives candidates another chance for admission into universities and other tertiary schools, within and outside Nigeria.

He said the exam covered 16 subjects, describing the release as a milestone in NECO’s push for credible and reliable assessments.

On malpractice, NECO said 9,016 candidates were booked for offences during the examination.

The registrar compared this with 6,160 candidates in 2024, calling it a 31.7 per cent rise.

NECO also reported that these steps were recommended, including blacklisting of five supervisors for aiding and abetting malpractice, two from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), one each from Kano, Adamawa, and Ondo states.

Four exam centres were recommended for derecognition over whole-centre malpractice, with two in Niger State, one each in Yobe and Kano states

How candidates can check the 2025 NECO SSCE External result

NECO directed candidates to check results online using their examination registration numbers.

Candidates can use the NECO result checking portal and follow these steps:

• Select the exam year: 2025

• Select the exam type: SSCE EXTERNAL (NOV/DEC)

• Enter the Token Number and registration number in the required fields

• Click “check result” to view the result

For general NECO information, candidates can also visit the NECO official website.

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Dele Fashomi

Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.

Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.

He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.

Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).

He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.

He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.

Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled:  Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.

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