Minna—Niger State
government has said that it would no longer pay examination fees of
students in public schools due to the continued mass failure in both
WAEC and NECO examinations.
Governor Abubakar
Bello, who disclosed this while inspecting ongoing renovation at the
Justice Idris Legbo Government Secondary School, Kutigi, yesterday,
said: “As it is now, majority of the students are not coming out
with good results at the end of both SSCE examinations.
“Instead of throwing
away N800 million on examination fees without any corresponding
results, this same money could as well be chanelled to renovation of
schools, provision of learning equipment and rehabilitation of
teachers’ quarters to make them more comfortable to put in their
best in teaching.”
The governor, who
admitted that the state was still owing both WAEC and NECO N500
million for the last examinations, however, assured the students
affected that the debt would soon be settled and their results
released.
Six schools, two each
from the three senatorial districts of the state, have been pencilled
down by the state government for renovation and turning into model
schools.
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