The Kano State Government yesterday said it has settled the registration fees of 29,031 students of different public schools who will be writing this year’s National Examination Council (NECO) examination.
The State Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, who said the money for the examination has been substantially settled, was reacting to media reports that Kano students may miss this year’s NECO examination over N1.5 billion unpaid fees.
In a chat with reporters in Kano, Garba denied that the state owed NECO N1.5 billion.
He said NECO was insisting on payment of N700 million before Kano students would be allowed to participate in the examination of which the state government paid NECO N366 million last week.
“What we are supposed to pay NECO is N334 million,” he said.
Malam Garba said the state has made a settlement for 15,313 students who got nine Credits from its qualifying examination and the essay will commence on July 4.
He said the state also made payment for 1,018 students with disabilities and another payment for 7,300 students through the governor’s wife’s Special Intervention which is basically for the girl child education, adding that the local government councils paid for 5,400 students.
“This means that the story that Kano has N1.5 billion unpaid NECO fees is not true,” he stated and added that 29,031 Kano students will sit for the examination.
It was also reported that NECO commenced the 2022 SSCE yesterday.
However, Garba said the examination was not to hold yesterday. Rather, it was the test interpretation practical and was only for teachers to come up with modalities for the practical examinations.
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