Earlyface

A total of 90,786
candidates participated
in the 2016 National
Common Entrance
Examination (NCEE) for
admission into the unity colleges held on
Saturday, 16th April
2016. Speaking
while monitoring the conduct of the exam in Abuja, the Minister of State
for Education, Prof. Anthony Anwukah, said that
Lagos State had the highest number of candidates
with 25,963. He observed that Zamfara had the least with 103
candidates, while 169 candidates registered from
the Internally Displaced Persons Camps (IDPs). Anwukah said that the number of candidates from
IDPs was impressive due to effective war against
insurgency that liberated communities."Adamawa has 313 regular students; those in IDPs
camps; 34, total for Adamawa is 347."Borno has 187 regular students; those in IDPs
camps; 120, total for Borno is 307; Yobe has 387
regular students; those in IDPs camps; 15, total for
Yobe is 402."Last year, Lagos had the highest registration with
25, 437; the lowest last year was Borno
understandably with 35; the total number of
candidates for last year examination was 86, 365."As the insurgency problem is easing off, more of
our students are registering for NCEE and affording
themselves the opportunity to enter Federal
Government Colleges,"he said. In his reaction, the NECO Registrar, Prof.
Abdulrasheed Garba, said that the results are
expected to be released by NECO to the Federal
Ministry of Education on April 20. He advised candidates to check the status of their
qualification for the interview test both at the
various unity colleges and on-line via NECO website www.mynecoexams.com as soon as the release of results in announced. Garba said that the Computer Based Test (CBT) was
the latest innovation in examinations across the
world, adding that the council would migrate to CBT
when adequate facilities were put in place. (NAN)