This was announced by the board’s Registrar, Prof Godswill Obioma at the council headquarters in Minna, Niger State, according to a statement by its Head, Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani.

He disclosed that a total of 41,459 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 39,503 actually sat, and 26,277 out of candidates who wrote the examination, obtained five credits and above including in English Language and Mathematics.

The statement also disclosed that 6,465 cases of examination malpractices were recorded in 2020 as against 17,004 cases in 2019.

The supplementary examinations, according to the board will start Monday 1st February 2021 to Wednesday 3rd March 2021.

Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma, disclosed this while announcing the result of the SSCE conducted by the Council in 2020.

The Registrar, however, said the results of affected candidates will be pending until supplementary examinations are conducted for the papers missed.

Obioma gave the lists of states affected by the protest to include Abia, Enugu, Edo, River, Ondo, Ekiti, Osun and Lagos States. Others are Oyo, Kano, FCT and Ogun.

He also listed the affected subjects, which includes; Chemistry practical, Economics, Technological Drawing, Food and Nutrition, and Further Mathematics.

“We wish to inform the general public that the Council has made specific arrangements for those candidates who missed some papers due to the #EndSARS protest in those states.

“The affected candidates will now sit for those papers missed during the forthcoming 2020 SSCE (external) scheduled from Monday 1st February 2021 to Wednesday 3rd March 2021.

“These special arrangements will be at no extra cost to these candidates. Upon the release of the 2020 SSCE internal results, those of the affected candidates will be pending for those papers missed and would be subsequently updated after the supplementary examination results are released,” he said.