NECO Ready For July 9 SSS Entrance Exam

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has concluded plans to conduct the 2011 entrance examinations into the unity senior secondary examination, an official said,  yesterday.

Mr Abimbola Afolabi, Lagos Zonal Coordinator of NECO, told newsmen in Lagos  that the examination would be conducted on July 9 nationwide.

He said that the examination would take place in 73 centres in Lagos State. He could not give the number of examination centres across the country.

Afolabi said that personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps would be attached to all examination centres to maintain peace and order.

He said that NECO set up measures to detect examination fraud, and advised candidates to desist from all firms of malpractice.

Afolabi also urged parents to discourage their children from examination malpractice which he said, was retarding education development.

“My appeal to parents is for them to explain the implications of examination malpractice to their children; we all know that it is our collective responsibility to raise leaders of tomorrow of repute,” he said.

He told newsmen that parents in Lagos State could check the result of the common entrance examination into the junior component of the unity colleges at the zonal office.

The NECO official said that the result could also be obtained from candidates’ schools of choice as well as the Lagos State Ministry of Education.

Our correspondent reports that more than 16,000 candidates nationwide sat for the common entrance examination on April 16.