NECO: We Receive Multiple Requests To Verify Nigerian Students’ Results From Canada, US, UK Other Countries – Registrar
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has disclosed that it receives multiple requests seeking to verify results of Nigerian students studying in the United States, Canada, South Africa as well as the United Kingdom to enable them continue their education in the diaspora.
Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, confirmed this development in a brochure chronicling the achievements of the examination body in its 25 years since its establishment.
Prof. Wushishi said such requests are treated with urgency because it signifies the acceptability of NECO results in the international education system.
NECO said that, beyond being a member of the International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA), its results are highly credible and meet the global academic and professional context.
Wushishi also noted that because of its global acceptance as a viable alternative, NECO has made inroads into nine countries, mainly the Benin Republic, Niger Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Cote d’ Ivoire, Gabon, Togo, Burkina Faso, United Kingdom, among others.
He said since its inception in 2000, a total of 28,222,218 candidates have registered to sit for the examination conducted by NECO, representing a significant 53.49percent in enrollment.
According to Prof. Wushishi, one fact that is highly underestimated is that NECO effectively broke the monopoly of a single Regional body conducting post-primary examinations in Nigeria.
His words, “Perhaps NECO’s single most consequential achievement is one that is easy to overlook. It ended WAEC’s monopoly over post-primary examinations in Nigeria. Before 1999, WAEC administered senior secondary examinations for the entire country, a body headquartered outside Nigeria and designed to serve multiple Anglophone West African nations simultaneously.
Critics had long argued that the arrangement compromised Nigeria’s educational sovereignty and left the system ill-suited to domestic curriculum priorities.
“NECO changed this by conducting the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination(SSCE) for both internal and external candidates, alongside the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE), creating genuine competition in the assessment space.
“The data tells this story vividly from its maiden examination in 2000, NECO grew its internal SSCE candidature from approximately 890,000 in 2000 to over 1.2million by 2022, a cumulative total exceeding 24 million candidates across the period”.
