The Federal Government has said the first batch of admissions to the Unity Schools will commence on May fourteenth, even as it announced the release of the results of the 2019/2020 National Common Entrance Examination.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said the National Common Entrance Examination is for admission to the one hundred and four Unity Schools across the country.

Adamu, while presenting the results in Abuja on Tuesday, promised to ensure that the admission process is given the maximum attention it deserves.

In terms of the admission exercise, it will commence on the fourteenth of May 2019, with the first batch of admissions coming as from the first week of June.

Supplementary admissions will take place between the thirteenth and twentieth of July 2019.

Adamu highlighted the admission criteria as National Merit to be sixty per cent, Equality of States as thirty per cent and other factors as ten per cent.

He added that candidates who applied for schools outside of their states of origin would be given priority in line with the ideals of the founding fathers of Unity Schools.