By Babajide Okeowo
233,000 candidates that could not write the National Examination Council (NECO) due to the #EndSARS crisis will take it alongside as external candidates in February 2021, the examination body has disclosed.
This was disclosed by Azeez Sani, Head of Information and Public Relations Division of the council.
Speaking with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday, Sani said that the Council Registrar, Prof. Godswill Obioma, while announcing the 2020 results, said that 12 states were disrupted during the conduct of the examinations as a result of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic and the End SARS protests.
Sani said that the affected candidates would now sit for those papers missed during the forthcoming SSCE (External) scheduled to hold between Feb. 1 and March 3.
He said that the special arrangement was at no extra cost to these
candidates.
He listed the states affected to include Abia, Enugu, Edo, Rivers, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Lagos, Oyo, Kano, Ogun States, and FCT.
Sani also said the affected subjects were Chemistry practical, Economics, Technical Drawing, Food and Nutrition, and Further Mathematics.
According to him, the results of the affected candidates will be pending until supplementary exams are conducted for the papers missed.
