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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

''NIGER GOV. STOPS PAYMENT OF WASSCE FEES, SAYS I CAN’T BE PAYING N800M FOR STUDENTS TO FAIL''

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The Niger State Government said it would discontinue the payment of the West African Senior School Examination Certificate Examination and National Examination Council fees for its students in secondary schools in the state.

The state governor, Sani Bello, disclosed this on Tuesday when he visited the Justice Legbo Kutigi Secondary School to inspect the ongoing renovation of the school in Lavun Local Government Area of the state.

Bello said government could not continue to pay N800m every year for students only for just five per cent of them to pass the examinations.

He said government would rather invest such money in infrastructure development and provision of instructional materials for qualitative education.

He said the payment of examination fees would henceforth be based on criteria where only best performing students would be selected as beneficiaries.

But parents and guardians in the state have appealed to Bello to reverse government’s decision to stop the payment of WASSCE and NECO fees.

They argued that it would not only be a serious burden on them but that it would also affect the educational standard and future of their wards.