Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima, has told Senior
Secondary School (SSIII) students in the State to pass mock entrance
examination, particularly Mathematics and English language in order for the
state government to pay for their West African Examination Council (WAEC) and
National Examination Council (NECO).
The governor said this
Monday through his State Commissioner for Education, Mr. Musa Kubo, who
disclosed this when he paid a visit to students and teachers of Women Teachers
College, Government Girls Secondary School and Mafoni Senior Day Secondary
School; all in Maiduguri.
Kubo noted that there would be need for the final year
students of the above schools to undergo a mock test, so that those who passed
the mock exams would have their WAEC/NECO fees paid by the government. He added
that the government will not be happy to spend millions of naira on examination
fees when a large number of the students would not do well in their results.
This directive is
coming two years after public schools in Borno State were closed down due to
activities of insurgents, but reopened last month.
The Commissioner
however stated that the State government, under Governor Kashim Shettima, would
continue to pay the fees of WAEC/NECO for students every year, adding that with
the closure of schools in the state in the past two years, some of the
students, who had overstayed at home without reading, might not be fit to write
the 2016 WAEC/NECO.
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