The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has disclosed a remarkable improvement in the performance of candidates who sat for its 2026 June/July National Business Certificate (NBC) and National Technical Certificate (NTC) examinations.
The board said 79,503 candidates, representing 81.24 per cent of the 97,863 candidates graded, had obtained at least five credits, including English Language and Mathematics.
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NABTEB, Dr. Aminu Mohammed, announced the results on Wednesday, September 2 at a news conference in Benin, Edo State, it was gathered.
The result released is a remarkable improvement over the 68.18 per cent recorded in the 2025 examination when 61,104 candidates got five credits and above, inclusive of English Language and Mathematics.
Mohammed credited the progress to the collective efforts of the candidates, teachers, schools, parents and other stakeholders in the education sector.
“The improvement seen in the 2026 examination is encouraging and reflects the collective efforts of candidates, teachers, schools, parents and the wider education system,” he said.
“89,580 candidates, representing 91.53 per cent of those graded, had five credits and above in the examination, with or without English Language and Mathematics,” the NABTEB boss further disclosed.
The figure was also higher than 83.28 per cent recorded in 2025, he said.
24,128 candidates were certified as artisans, Mohammed, 24, which was 24.65 per cent of those graded.
Further details of the examination, the registrar said, showed that 100,069 candidates registered for the 2026 exercise out of which 97,867 candidates eventually sat for the examinations.
“The attendance rate was 97.80 per cent,” he said.
Mohammed said the development was part of NABTEB’s efforts to improve timely service delivery, adding the board also released the results 52 days after the final paper was written.
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On examination malpractice, the registrar said 847 candidates were involved in 1,554 cases reported during the examination.
He said the figure represented 1.55 per cent of the candidates who wrote the examination and was lower than the figure in 2025.
Mohammed said the drop, indicated that measures put in place by the board to curb examination malpractice were beginning to yield positive results.
“I am happy to report that the modalities adopted by the board to checkmate examination malpractice are yielding good results,” he said.
The NABTEB registrar has asked candidates to check their results on the board’s official result checking platform.
He warned candidates and members of the public not to fall for scams by fraudsters who promise to rig or upgrade examination results.
Mohammed warned that “no one has the right to change the legitimate result of a candidate.”
