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The National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, has said that a full of 15,281 candidates enrolled for admittance into method colleges crossed the state successful 2026.
DAILY POST reports that Dr. Mohammed Aminu Mohammed, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the board, disclosed this on Saturday, June 13, 2026, during the monitoring of the National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into method colleges successful Nigeria astatine Uromi, Esan North-East Local Government Area of Edo State.
Mohammed said the fig for 2026 was implicit 8,000 little than the 2025 fig of implicit 24,000 candidates.
He said that retired of the 15,281 candidates, 10,626 were males, portion 4,655 were females.
He besides disclosed that Enugu State recorded the highest fig of candidates with 1,506, portion Zamfara State had the lowest number, with lone 14 candidates.
The NABTEB brag added that the examination, which took spot simultaneously successful 203 centres nationwide, marked different milestone successful the Federal Government’s committedness to strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
He further stated that TVET remains a strategical pathway for nationalist development, younker empowerment, skills acquisition, entrepreneurship and economical self-reliance.
According to him, “We are astatine the...
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