The Akwa Ibom State Government has disputed PREMIUM TIMES’ report placing the state 36th among the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in the 2026 National Examinations Council (NECO) Senior School Certificate Examination, but has yet to provide the official examination data it says contradicts the ranking.
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The state government, through its Commissioner for Information, Aniekan Umanah in a release from the State Ministry of Information and the Commissioner for Education, Ubong Umoh in a radio programme, falsely claimed that the report was fake.
Both officials insisted that NECO had not released results from 83 of 214 public-school examination centres in the state.
However, despite repeated requests from PREMIUM TIMES for the official NECO data on which the government based its rebuttal, the government has not provided the document, the performance figures it claims were supplied by NECO, or the list of the 83 affected centres.
PREMIUM TIMES obtained the state-by-state performance data from NECO and subsequently reported the figures on a regional basis, including the performance of Akwa Ibom and other South-south and South-east states.
The newspaper’s report showed that 7,754 of the 20,720 Akwa Ibom candidates who sat the examination obtained at least five credits, including English Language and Mathematics, standing at 37.42 per cent. That placed Akwa Ibom...
The Akwa Ibom State Government has disputed PREMIUM TIMES’ report placing the state 36th among the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory in the 2026 National Examinations Council (NECO) Seni...