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The National Examination Council has released the results of the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination.
A total of 1,496 candidates were involved in examination malpractice, as against 3,878 in 2025.
The Registrar of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, made this known on Thursday during a press briefing, where he said 1,378,048 candidates registered for the examination, but 1,371,992 sat for it.
“Number of candidates with five credits and above, including English language and mathematics 804,948, representing 58. 67%
“Number of candidates with 5 credits and above irrespective of English language and mathematics was 1,126,118, representing 84.70%.
“Number of candidates involved in examination malpractice in 2026 was 1,496 as against 3,878 in 2025. There was a decrease of 64.74%,” Wushishi said.
The registrar explained during the question-and-answer session that the adoption of the computer-based examination had reduced the incidence of malpractice in NECO examinations.
He further said that NECO was not aware of miracle centres, saying NECO owns only one school and is not involved in miracle centres.
“We register centres and have criteria for which we register these centres. We don’t know miracle centres because we have only one school and we cannot be associated with miracle centres.
“If there are miracle centres, it is the state governments that established these miracle centres, or they are privately owned, but NECO does not believe in miracle centres,” he said.
Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury to fight in Cardiff December 11
Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury will meet in a long-awaited all-British heavyweight showdown at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11.
As reported by BBC Sport on Thursday, the fight will bring together two of Britain’s biggest heavyweight names after both men came through their respective warm-up bouts in July.
Fury, 37, stopped 46-year-old Mariusz Wach in the seventh round in Pattaya, Thailand, in a bout staged before around 1,500 spectators and not broadcast on television.
Joshua, 36, endured a dramatic contest in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, recovering from two first-round knockdowns before stopping Albanian heavyweight Kristian Prenga in the second round.
The first knockdown came just 20 seconds into the fight, but Joshua recovered to secure victory.
The bout was Joshua’s first since surviving a car crash in Nigeria that claimed the lives of his close friends Sina Ghami and Latif “Latz” Ayodele.
After his victory, Joshua and his promoter Eddie Hearn had expressed a preference for the fight to take place at Wembley Stadium.
However, Joshua’s agreement with the Saudi organisers financing the event required the contest to be held in Britain, with a move to the United States requiring a renegotiation of the deal.
Hearn has described the Fury fight as hugely significant to Joshua’s career.
Speaking after Pat Brown’s victory over John Hedges on September 19, Hearn said Joshua’s “whole career comes down to this” fight.
“There is a desperation to win this fight and this is why sport is the greatest. I’ve never wanted to win a fight so badly,” Hearn said.
The December clash will finally see the two British heavyweights share the ring after years of negotiations and speculation surrounding a potential meeting.
