Just In: NECO Releases 2025 BECE Results, Details Emerge
- NECO has announced the release of the 2025 BECE results, an examination which was conducted between May 12 and May 23, 2025
- According to NECO, 179,201 candidates registered for the BECE exercise, which cut across 12 subjects
- Azeez Sani, the acting director of information and public relations for NECO, on Wednesday, July 9, announced the development in a statement
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced the release of the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results. The board disclosed that 179,201 candidates registered for the exercise, which cut across 12 subjects.
According to NECO, the examination started on May 12 and ended on May 23, 2025. This was disclosed in a statement by Azeez Sani, the acting director of information and public relations for NECO, on Wednesday, July 9.
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Why NECO releases BECE results
Vanguard reported that Sani said the results were released following the successful completion of the 2025 BECE Award Committee Meeting, which was held at the council's headquarters in Minna, Niger state capital.
Folake Olatunji-David, the chairperson of the Award Committee and director of basic education at the Federal Ministry of Education, while speaking at the meeting, said that the process was satisfactory, which subsequently led to the release of the result.
Present at the meeting were the NECO management board and some selected principals of secondary schools across the country.
Subsequently, the Award Committee approved the date and timetable for the resit of the 2025 BECE examination. The resit is scheduled for July 23 and 24, 2025, and will cover Mathematics and English Studies. This is an avenue for the affected students to correct their mistakes and move to the next class.
JAMB releases CBT centres doing examination malpractices
This came as another examination board, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the data of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) Centres in Imo and Anambra states, topping its list of CBT centres caught in the fingerprinting malpractices during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
According to the data, 19 states were nabbed across the country during the 2025 UTME exercise. At the top of the list is Anambra with six centres, and Imo has four centres. Other states with one each included Abia, Edo, Ebonyi, Delta, Kaduna, Rivers and Enugu, while Kano has two.
The Punch reported that Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB registrar, while making his presentation on Tuesday, July 8, disclosed that some of the impersonators made use of albinos so that they could achieve image bending and remote upload among several other means.
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Universities where candidates can't study law
Legit.ng earlier reported that JAMB has listed eight universities where candidates would not be admitted to study law for the 2025/2026 academic session.
Two of the universities would also not be allowed to admit law students in the 2026/2027 academic calendar.
According to the examination board, the universities have been informed, and prospective 2025 UTME candidates are to take notes.
Proofreading by James Ojo, copy editor at Legit.ng.
Source: Legit.ng
