No fewer than 1,376,391 candidates have registered for the ongoing 2024 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, Internal conducted by the National Examinations Council, NECO.

A statement by the council’s Acting Director of Information and Digital Communications, Azeez Sani, said the Registrar of NECO, Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi disclosed this yesterday after monitoring the examination at some centres in Enugu, Enugu State.

Wushishi, who expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination in the centre, disclosed that reports received across the nation indicates that the examination is going on smoothly.

He attributed this success to the various measures put in place to ensure a seamless exercise.

According to him, due to some innovations put in place, the menace of examination malpractice is on the decline.

The registrar admonished candidates to work hard in order to have a good grade in the examination, stressing that “there is no short cut to success.”

He disclosed that since the commencement of the examination, he had monitored the exercise in Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Imo and Anambra States to have first hand information on its conduct.

According to him, in all the states visited, critical stakeholders lauded NECO for the various measures put in place, which helped in making the conduct of the SSCE seamless.

The registrar disclosed that the examination is also being held in Togo, Benin Republic, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Niger Republic, Cote d’ Ivoire and the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia.

Wushishi explained that the extension of NECO examination to other countries indicates the wide acceptance of its certificates across the world.

The 2024 NECO SSCE commenced on June 19 and will end on July 25.

Candidates are expected to sit for the examination in 76 subjects.