NECO Announces 2015 Result

The National Examination Council (NECO) has announced the release of results of the June/July 2015 examination which saw improvements in students’ performance as against last year exams.

The announcement was made in Minna today by the NECO registrar, Prof. Abdulrashid Garba as he spoke on the general performance on this year’s exam results.

He went ahead to state that 68.5 per cent of candidates that sat for the examination scored more than 5 credits, which saw an improvement of 16.27 per cent from the previous year.

Again, according to the NECO boss, the results of fewer percentages of candidates that engaged in exam malpractice were cancelled and the lists of schools that were also involved in the malpractice were blacklisted.

This announcement is coming exactly 60 days after the final paper for this year’s NECO examination was concluded, signalling a remarkable improvement and achievement for the council.

The council has stated that candidates that had their result released after now can head to the website at www.mynecoexams.com for result check.

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PTDF Cancels 2015/2016 Local And Overseas Scholarship Programme But Invites Candidates Ahead For 2016/2017 Scheme

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has recently announced the cancellation of its annual local and overseas scholarship programme for the 2015/2016 session.

This was detailed in the statement issued by the Fund head of external relations, Mr Kalu Otisi.

That in line with new policy direction of boosting local content development, PTDF is in talks with the officials of those foreign countries where Nigerians scholars are regularly being sent to, in order to find a common ground of either establishing those foreign institutions in 

Nigeria or collaborating with local universities in achieving the Fund’s main aims and objective on local soil.

However, PTDF on their local website is inviting suitably and qualified prospective scholars to apply for Computer Based Aptitude Test (CBT) that will give them access to the local and overseas scholarship program for 2016/2017 scheme.

It is noted that the Fund sends out Nigerian scholars annually to mostly the UK and newly included French universities, but the good news here is that they have expanded the numbers of foreign countries where they will be sending their prospective scholars for the 2016/2017 programme to include countries like US, Australia, Germany and off course that is in addition to the UK and French universities.

Application for the PTDF 2016/2017 scholarship scheme is on-going and qualified candidates are expected as usual to obtain the portal access scratch card at designated First Bank branches nationwide or obtain the scratch card PIN online.

The closing date for the application is on the 31^st October 2015 and the date for the CBT has not been specified but will be fixed in due course.

Access: PTDF

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