FG releases 2019/2020 Common Entrance results for admission into Unity schools | EduCeleb
Abednego Wakili
7th May 2019
The Federal Government has announced the release of the 2019/2020 National Common Entrance Examination for admission to the 104 Unity Schools across the country.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu while presenting the results in Abuja on Tuesday, promised to ensure that the admission process was given the maximum attention it deserved.
“We are mindful of the anxiety on the part ofparents to get admission for their wards into our schools. We are equallyconscious that some of our competitors (private schools) are ahead of us interms of the conduct of their 2019/2020 admissions.
“The good news is that our schools have an edgeover most of the private schools in terms of qualified teachers and facilitiesamong other variables. Even at that, we are not taking anything for granted.
“For next year’s admission, we shall adjust theexam schedules to ensure that children get their admission letters before theend of April.”
EduCeleb.com recalls that the National Examinations Council (NECO) conducted the National Common Entrance Examination on 27th April for admission to the Unity Schools.
Mr Adamu highlighted the admission criteria as National Merit to be 60 per cent, Equality of States as 30 per cent and other factors as10 per cent.
He added that candidates who applied for schoolsoutside of their states of origin would be given priority in line with theideals of the founding fathers of Unity Schools.
“It is the hope of the government that everygraduate of our Unity Schools should be able to speak at least one Nigerianlanguage outside his/her mother tongue in the course of his/her six-yearprogramme.
“In terms of the admission exercise, it willcommence on the 14th of May 2019, with the first batch of admissions coming asfrom the first week of June.
“Supplementary admissions will take place betweenthe 13th and 20th of July 2019. By the second week of September, the gates ofall our 104 Unity Schools will be opened for resumption.”
The minister, therefore, assured Nigerians that theUnity Schools remained the best destination for quality secondary education,adding that government was doing more to ensure the rehabilitation andlandscaping of the schools, provision of qualified teachers, librarians andlaboratories.
The Acting Registrar of NECO, Mr Abubakar Gana wasalso there to  present it for publication.