The National Examinations Council, NECO on Tuesday released the date for the conduct of its 2020 examinations for Senior Secondary three students.

 

The board in a press declaration signed with the aid of its Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Professor Godswill Obioma, announced that the NECO SSCE will take place on Monday fifth October 2020 to Wednesday 18th November 2020.

 

The exam physique additionally announced that admission of JSS1 students into Federal Unity Colleges will take location on Saturday 17th October 2020.

 

The Basic Education Certificate Examinations (re-sit) has also been scheduled to preserve on Wednesday, eleventh and Thursday twelfth November 2020 for the prescribed relevant subjects.

 

“The BECE for JSS three students, also performed via NECO, will begin on August 24 and give up on September 7.

 

 

 

“The National Business and Technical Examination Board examinations will start on September 21 and cease on October 15.

 

“Other small print of the time table point out that the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations for SS3, carried out by using NECO will start on October 5 and cease on November 18, 2020,” the announcement examine in part.

More than five million Nigerians have applied for the batch-C of the N-Power programme, it used to be learnt on Tuesday.

The registration which commenced on the twenty sixth of June 2020 was scheduled to cease on the twenty sixth of July but it was once extended by way of two weeks.

The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development in a assertion via the SA to the minister on Strategic Communication, Halima Oyelade stated the on-line portal closed on Sunday ninth of August, 2020 with a complete of 5,042,001 applications.

According to the federal government, 400,000 candidates will be absorbed upon conclusion of the enrollment exercise

The Minister, Sadiya Farouq, stated that ladies and individuals with disability will be prioritized during the choice process.

She additionally re-assured Nigerians that due diligence will be applied at some point of the next stage of selection to ensure that solely duly certified candidates are enrolled.

The minister introduced that her Ministry will ensure that the applicants, as well as the frequent public, are kept thoroughly knowledgeable on the progress of the scheme.

She also explained that the N-Power programme is aimed at supplying Nigerian youths with possibilities to gain capabilities for employability and entrepreneurship which will also, go a long way in helping the usa toward the post-COVID-19 monetary recovery.

The minister reiterated her Ministry’s commitment to the imaginative and prescient of President Muhammadu Buhari to carry a hundred Hundred million Nigerians out of Poverty in the subsequent l0 years.

According to her, the N-power programme is one of the platforms that can assist in the recognition of that vision