By Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
Candidates that sat for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) examinations in public and private schools in Borno state have scored 87.6 per cent in five subjects, including mathematics and English.
The was disclosed on Thursday by the zonal officers in charge of WAEC and NECO, Zakari Yau Abdullahi and Ahmed Ma’aji, while submitting examinations results to Governor Kashim Shettima at Government House, Maiduguri.
He said 87.6 per cent of candidates who sat for two exams from public and private schools in the state got a minimum of five credits required for University admissions. “On the final year exams by NECO, 82.5 percent of candidates from public and private schools passed the exams, an official,” said Ma’aji.
The Director of Education Resource Centre, Laminu Abba also disclosed that 15,623 candidates from public schools sat for the two exams, with 87.6 per cent performances. With this cheering news of examinations performances for university entries, Shettima directed a committee to lobby universities for
admissions of eligible candidates.
Shettima said that he had expected the takeoff of the State University but funds that should have gone to the University were slowed using a scale of preference that gave priority to the rebuilding of communities for return of IDPs. His words :“My heart bled yesterday when officials of the West African Examinations Council and National Examinations Council informed me that more than 80 per cent of our sons and daughters secured five credits including mathematics and English in this year’s Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations that will soon be released.
“I was overwhelmingly excited by the result, I was sad by the fact that these boys and girls could have easily been admitted into the State University.
“Our scale of preference made rebuilding of communities a bigger priority. But as a form of compensation, I will like to specially request the chairman and members of the Committee on Borno State University to kindly contact Universities within and outside the State, to intensely lobby for placements of our secondary school graduates during the upcoming admission.”
