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.