Workers at the Minna, Niger State headquarters of the National Examination Council, on Thursday, appealed to the Federal Government not to scrap the examination body.
Although The Education Minister, Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, has said she was yet to be informed on any plan to scrap the National Examination Council (NECO) and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), some pertinent questions have arisen;
1. Britain is not up to half the size of Nigeria and it has about eight examination bodies. How then can Nigeria have only examination body?
2.Why lump NECO with the West African Examination Council? WAEC does not belong to Nigeria, so what does the country stand to gain by handing over structures of NECO to WAEC?
3. How possible is it for WAEC, or any examination body for that matter, to organise one SSCE in November and organise another one two months later, when they have not released the result of the one conducted in November?.
4. Again, we should not be in a hurry to forget when Nigerian candidates suffered untold hardship in the hands of WAEC, which led to the birth of NECO.
5. What happens to all the workers at NECO? Will they all be absorbed by WAEC
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