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November 22, 2021
The head of the Nigeria National Office of the examination body,
Patrick Areghan, disclosed this in a press statement issued on Monday.
While giving a breakdown of the examination and the result, he
explained that 1,560,261 candidates sat for the exercise in five countries
– The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
A further breakdown of the result showed that 1,398,370 candidates who
make up 89.62%, had credits and above in at least five (5) subjects (i.e
with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics.
According to him, 1,274,784 persons, representing 81.7%, had credits
and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English
Language and Mathematics.
He also noted that the examination which spanned seven weeks was
affected by several security challenges including the sit-at-home order in
the South East, banditry, kidnapping, insurgency, in the north and other
parts of Nigeria.