Boko Haram is a threat to education-NECO

National Examination Council, NECO, has raised an alarm over the effect Boko Haram insurgency would have on conduct of future examinations in  the northern part of the country.

Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Professor Promise Okpala, stated this,weekend,  while  announcing release of the  General Certificate of Education, GCE, examination results of November /December last year in Minna.

He said: “During the conduct of the examination, the council was faced with challenges associated with insecurity in some parts of the country.
“The challenges affected the overall time-line for the conduct of the examination, marking of the result scripts and the release of the results scripts.”

Also announcing the release of the   results, Professor Okpala said there was a remarkable improvement in candidates’ performances in the core subjects, English and Mathematics, compared with the situation in the previous years.