NABTEB releases FTC entrance results, only 39% score 50% and above.

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has released the results of the 2025 entrance examination into Federal Technical Colleges.

The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Board, Dr. Aminu Mohammed, made this known on Wednesday in Benin while announcing the results of the recently conducted National Common Entrance Examination at the selection and placement exercise attended by principals, officials, and stakeholders from across the country.

The Registrar revealed that only 39% of the 24,074 candidates who participated scoring 50% and above, while 316 candidates representing 1.31% scoring 70% and above, with a total of 14,685 candidates representing 61% scoring below 50%.

Mohammed urged stakeholders to carefully identify and admit students best suited for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs, emphasizing the importance of a fair, transparent, and merit-based selection process to attract talented and motivated students.

In his remarks, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, who was represented by the Ministry’s Director of Technology and Science Education, Dr. Muibat Olodo, commended the renewed interest in TVET and announced plans to establish more federal technical colleges. 

Alausa said the ministry has already established two additional colleges in Enugu and Plateau States, with efforts ongoing to ensure each state has a federal technical college.

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