The Federal Government has denied scrapping the National Examinations Council (NECO) together with Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The denial is an apparent backpedalling next the opposition that greeted the move, which Presidency officials disclosed to newsmen. Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, who made the denial yesterday when he appeared earlier the Senate Committee on Education, described the purported scrapping of NECO together with UTME every bit a rumour.
His words: “I don’t know where they got the data that authorities wanted to flake NECO. Government has at no fourth dimension scrapped NECO together with UTME. “Even if the authorities has to flake whatsoever of these agencies, it has to give reasons for its action. No seat has been taken.
The denial is an apparent backpedalling next the opposition that greeted the move, which Presidency officials disclosed to newsmen. Minister of State for Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, who made the denial yesterday when he appeared earlier the Senate Committee on Education, described the purported scrapping of NECO together with UTME every bit a rumour.
His words: “I don’t know where they got the data that authorities wanted to flake NECO. Government has at no fourth dimension scrapped NECO together with UTME. “Even if the authorities has to flake whatsoever of these agencies, it has to give reasons for its action. No seat has been taken.
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I don’t know where the rumours are coming from.” With those words, the minister, Mr. Wike soothed frayed nerves of Nigerians, staff of the 2 testify bodies together with members of the Senate Committee on Education. He was reacting to queries from the Senator Uche Chukwumerije-led Education Committee over reports that the Federal Government had concluded plans to flake NECO together with UMTE.
In his submissions, Wike said although, the Professor Stephen Orosanye Committee, ready to await into the cases of overlap of agencies, had recommended the scrapping of NECO together with JAMB, the authorities was even then inward the procedure of taking a terminal determination on the recommendation.
Wike said the White Paper commission ready to review the recommendations was even then working. Earlier, Senator Chukwumerije told the government minister that UTME together with NECO were the 2 institutions which offered Nigerian students access to lineament education.
He too bemoaned a province of affairs whereby the Federal Government could of a precipitous produce upward one's heed to flake the 2 agencies fifty-fifty when the laws that laid them upward were even then really much inward place. He said: “The Senate is really interested inward what happens to the pedagogy of our people together with pedagogy to a greater extent than oftentimes than non because these 2 institutions monitor access together with lineament of pedagogy inward the country.
We are peculiarly interested because in that location are implications for the people should the 2 institutions last scrapped. There volition last the resultant of unemployment together with in that location volition last the resultant of costs.”
JAMB Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde inward his contributions earlier the committee, canvassed the memory of JAMB, adding that whatsoever reverse motion “would last grave for the Nigerian child. Each kid would receive got to buy forms for the academy he wants to go”.
He told the commission that UMTE was the exclusively certain agency of addressing the various problems of the seat down including federal character.
Source: sunnewsonline.com
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