The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the two thousand and twenty-five Senior School Certificate Examination.

NECO Registrar, Professor Ibrahim Wushishi, announced the release of the results at a press conference in Minna, Niger State, noting that out of over one million candidates who sat for the June and July exercise, only eight hundred and eighteen thousand, four hundred and ninety-two, representing sixty point two percent, scored five credits and above, including Mathematics and English.

Wushishi announced that in view of the reviewed curriculum, which is currently being implemented, NECO will conduct the SSCE examination on only thirty-eight subjects, which will reduce the waiting time for the results.

Meanwhile, the United States government has imposed new sanctions to counter the destabilizing activities of Iran and its accomplices in Asia and the Middle East.

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated an illicit financial network of two Iranian facilitators, as well as individuals and entities based in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates.

The network is accused of facilitating the sale of Iranian oil, with proceeds benefiting Iran’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Moving on, the Olubadan designate, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, has described Ibadan as a training ground that has produced great leaders across Nigeria and the world. Oba Rashidi Ladoja made this statement while receiving the Dominion Broadcast Group at his Bodija residence in Ibadan. He emphasized that his administration will focus on an all-inclusive governance in Yorubaland

Vice President Kashim Shettima has restated the administration’s plan to create twenty-one million jobs in rural and agrarian communities through major investments in agriculture.

Speaking at the Hand-in-Hand Investment Forum in Abuja, he said reforms such as easier land registration, stronger investment agencies, and deeper public-private partnerships are designed to attract and sustain capital.

Shettima added that the National Development Plan (2021–2025) aims to lift thirty-five million Nigerians out of poverty while ensuring food and nutrition sufficiency.

Kazakhstan has banned forced marriages and bride kidnappings through a law that came into effect Tuesday, in the Central Asian country, where the practice persists despite new attention being paid to women’s rights.

Kazakh police said in a statement, that forcing someone to marry is now punishable by up to ten years in prison, so as to  prevent forced marriages and protect vulnerable categories of citizens, especially women and adolescents.

Meanwhile, a Kazakh lawmaker said earlier this year that the police had received two hundred and fourteen complaints over the past three years, which then makes the ban valid.