On Tuesday, July 16, 2024, the Federal Government released the results of the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) for admissions into Junior Secondary School 1 of the Federal Unity Colleges.
Of the 71,291 candidates who registered for the examination, 66,931 candidates sat for the exam while 4,360 were absent.
With a maximum obtainable score of 210, only one candidate obtained the highest score of 203 while 13 others got the lowest score of one each.
The NCEE was conducted in Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo on June 1, 2024. It allows candidates the opportunity to seek admission into the Federal Unity Colleges across the country.
Reeling out the details of the examination result at a news conference in Abuja, the Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu said this year an unprecedented number of 52 candidates – two candidates from Lagos State and 50 candidates from Rivers State – were involved in examination malpractice.
He said, for the examination conducted for the Federal Government Academy (FGA), 2,649 candidates registered with 2,336 candidates sitting for the examination while 313 candidates were absent.
Sununu said, “The highest score for this examination is 180 while the lowest is five.”
Criteria for admission into Federal Unity Colleges
The minister further assured parents, students and guardians that the admission criteria for the selection of qualified candidates into the Federal Unity Colleges have not changed.
He said admission requirements are 60 per cent merit, 30 per cent equality of state and 10 per cent exigency.
Sununu also charged the Senior Secondary Education Department of the ministry to ensure that all admission processes were concluded timely in line with the standard criteria.
He said, “As you are all aware, it is a common knowledge that our Federal Unity Colleges have become the first port of call for most parents in the country.
“I want to assure all Nigerian parents that government will continue to do her best to improve on infrastructural development, feeding and teacher quality for effective teaching and learning in our colleges,” Sununu added.
