Inalegwu Shaibu
16 September 2008
The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2008 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into federal government colleges, just as it said only 49 percent of candidates who sat for the examination would take the oral interview.
Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Promise Okpala who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja said out of the 56, 005 candidates that took the examination, only 27, 630 candidates scored above the cut off marks, which varies from state to state.
He said the successful candidates in the first phase would sit for second test and an oral interview scheduled to hold on the 20th September, 2008 in all the federal Unity Schools across the federation.
Explaining the difference in cut off mark across the states, Professor Okpalla said it was in harmony with the objectives of Unity Schools which is to give room for equal opportunities to all Nigerians, for the purpose of effective social integration.
"We set the difference in the cut-off mark to create room for people from all the states to enroll in Unity Schools. If not, we will have a situation where a particular school would be populated by only one section of the country thereby jeopardizing the objectives for establishing Unity Schools," he said.
He called on candidates to check the results on the NECO website while they awaits the printed copies of the results which will be send in the next few days to all state offices of NECO.
He also called on all the successful candidates to come with the following items, 3 passport sized photographs, NECO registration slip/computer print out, birth certificate,/declaration of age, certificate of state of origin, writing ,materials and the sum of N500 for the second test.
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