No fewer than 74,819 candidates are participating in the on-going 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for External candidates nation-wide.
A statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Acting Director, Information and Digital Communication of the council, Azeez Sani said.
Sani quoted the Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi during the examination monitoring at Government Science Secondary School Gombe, Gombe State.
Wushishi who expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the candidates at the centre, disclosed that reports received from the various centres across the country indicated that the examination is going on smoothly.
He admonished candidates to shun examination malpractice, noting that various measures had been put in place to check the menace.
The Registrar who is on a nation-wide monitoring of the examination, said the Council had put in place necessary measures to ensure that the examination was seamless.
He said the 2023 SSCE External which started on Monday, Nov.20, 2023 would come to an end on Dec. 20, 2023, saying candidates were to sit for the examination in 29 different subjects.
