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End SARS: NECO suspends SSCE examinations

Amid the End SARS protest, the National Examinations Council (NECO) has suspended it’s ongoing Senior Schools Certificate Examinations (SSCE).

In a message through the Department of Examination Administration (DEA) on Wednesday, the body extended it’s examination till November.

Despite the protest, NECO managed to conduct its Economic paper on Tuesday and Physics practical on Wednesday.

In the message, NECO directed all its staff on field for the examinations to return back to the office.

According to NECO, “The Management and Governing Board of the National Examinations Council NECO is compelled by circumstances occasioned by the End SARS protests which led to imposition of curfews in some states thereby making it difficult for the council to move sensitive materials across the country, to put on hold papers for Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24, October.”

It also said that “the papers will be written between 17th to 19th November after computer practical paper on the 16th”.

NECO stressed that the “examinations will continue on the 27th of October”.

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