The National Examinations Council has announced the release of the results of the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination, with a significant decline in reported cases of examination malpractice.
According to the council, 1,496 candidates were found to have been involved in malpractice in the 2026 examination, compared with 3,878 cases recorded in 2025, representing a 64.74 per cent decrease.
The Registrar of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, disclosed the figures on Thursday during a press briefing on the examination results.
Wushishi said 1,378,048 candidates registered for the examination, while 1,371,992 candidates eventually sat for the exercise.
He disclosed that 804,948 candidates, representing 58.67 per cent, obtained at least five credits, including English Language and Mathematics.
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He added that 1,126,118 candidates, representing 84.70 per cent, secured five credits and above regardless of their performance in English Language and Mathematics.
Speaking during the question-and-answer session, the registrar attributed the reduction in malpractice cases partly to the council’s adoption of computer-based examinations.
Wushishi also dismissed reports linking NECO to so-called miracle centres, insisting that the examination body has no involvement in such 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.
He said NECO operates only one school and therefore could not be associated with miracle centres, adding that any such centres were either established by state governments or privately owned.