National Examination Council has withheld the results of over 30,000 candidates in public schools in Niger State, due to the inability of State Government to pay their examination fees.
The students are currently unable to access their NECO May/June SSCE, results released on August 27, 2019.
The Niger state government has admitted that they are owning the examination body N4o0 million, adding that they have paid N150 million.The Permanent Secretary of the Niger State Ministry of Education, Abubakar Aliyu, when contacted on Monday admitted that they are owning the examination body but appealed for consideration to enable the students to access their results especially those due for post-UTME screenings.
“NECO is owed N400 million this year and the government has commenced the payment. Last week Friday, we remitted N150 million to them and we are still negotiating with them to release the result but they have not. Hopefully, they may release it today .” “For us, as a government, we do not have money to release at once but as a responsive government, we have a clear picture of what we want to do. Once we get money, we will give them. Within the available resources, we have given what we have and we will continue to give them what we have until we clear the accumulated debts.”
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