The Registrar, National Examination Council (NECO), Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, has said over 50 countries have requested the validation and authentication of 490 NECO results and certificates of candidates, between January and August 2022.

Wushishi at a one-day retreat on the State of Education in Nigeria organised by the Education Correspondent Association of Nigeria (ECAN) on Tuesday in Abuja, noted that contrary to belief that the body is not accepted globally, its results and certificates are popular across the world.

While noting that NECO was a vital member of international and African educational bodies, the Registrar revealed that the Council has extended the conduct its examination in some West African countries, adding that the Council was consistently working on improving its quality and standard of examination.

According to him, good politics, policies, programmes, processes and products were the five pillars to transforming Nigeria’s education sector which was bedevilled with multiple challenges including out-of-school-children, basic education, teachers training and capacity, education data and planning, as well as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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