NECO2000· Scholar SC020

NECO Inaugural Best — 2000

First NECO Examination

The record · educational context

NECO (National Examinations Council) conducted its first SSCE examination in 2000, established by Decree No. 4 of 1999 under the Abdulsalami military transitional government. Best student records from the earliest years are not comprehensively in the public domain.

Subjects

N/A

Record

Exam

NECO

Year

2000

Position

First NECO Examination

Score

N/A

School

[Individual records pending]

State

N/A

Sources

NECO Act 1999; NECO History

https://neco.gov.ng

National education context · 2000

What it took to pass that exam

The realities — political, fiscal, infrastructural — under which Nigerian candidates wrote this examination.

Federal Minister of Education

Tunde Adeniran

1999–2001

First Fourth Republic education minister (Obasanjo).

Federal education budget

Being compiled.

State education budget · N/A

N/A state education budget for 2000 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

Documented incidents for this year being compiled.

Global body response

No documented international body response on file for this year.

Nigeria's global education ranking

Ranking record for this year being compiled.

The kids passed in spite of these realities. The record stands so that the cost of their achievement is not lost.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.