[b] The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the 2013 Senior Schools Certificate Examinations results with a considerable improvement by the students generally nationwide compared with the past results.

A breakdown of the results shows that about 69.57% of the candidate had credit generally while most of the students also came out with good results in both English Language and Mathematics.

Releasing the results at the Headquarters of the Examinations body in Minna, the Niger state capital, the Registrar, Professor Promise Nwachukwu Okpala , said number of candidates who registered for the examinations is one million, fifty two thousand, eight hundred and ninety eight, 1,052,898.

He noted that six hundred and eighty one thousand , five hundred and seven, 681,507, representing sixty six point six three, 66. 63 percent passed English Language at credit level while six hundred and sixty eight thousand, three hundred and fourteen, 668,314, representing 65.50% also passed mathematics at credit level. [/b]