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The Federal Government on Thursday accused a state government of owing the National Examination Council over N2bn for registration of its students for the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.
FG lamented that the debt was taking a toll on operations of the council. This is coming as over 1.3 million candidates registered to sit for the ongoing 2021 SSCE examination being conducted by NECO.The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, while monitoring the exercise in some schools in Abuja, noted that part of the challenges in conducting the examination was a number of states that offered to register candidates from their states and eventually failed to pay.
He disclosed that a particular state was owing about N2bn over the years, saying the council had to approach the ministry for help in order to effectively conduct the ongoing examination. Echono said, “One of the issues is that we have encouraged NECO to start enforcemenr because we have many notorious states; there is a particular state that owes over N2bn for many years.“State governments offer to pay examination fees for candidates from their states but when it comes to the actual payment, they do not do it, and that has strapped NECO, they have to apply to the ministry for support to conduct the examination.
Echono commended NECO for the smooth conduct of the exercise, saying from what he observed and reports from other parts of the country, the exercise was going on smoothly.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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