Kano Govt releases N3bn for students’ registration fees for NECO, NABTEB, NBAIS
The Kano State Government has released over N3 billion for payment of registration fees for the state 141,175 students who passed the 2024 qualifying examinations for 2025 WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, and NBAIS examinations.
Alhaji Ali Makoda, the Special Adviser on Information to Gov. Abba Yusuf, stated this when he spoke with newsmen in Kano.
Makoda that the State Ministry of Education had released the results of the qualifying examinations for secondary school students in Kano.
“These students are studying under the Kano State Teachers Service Board and the Science and Technical Schools Board, where 75 percent of them qualified to write the senior school certificate examinations of WAEC, NABTEB, NECO, and NBAIS (for Arabic students).
“The students eligible for payment by the Kano State Government under Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf are those who scored five credits and above,” he said.
The Commissioner said that all secondary school principals and directors should notify their students of their results so that the state government can effect the payment.
The 2025 qualifying exams for WAEC, NECO, and NABTEB will enable the students to sit for their 2025 examinations required for admission into tertiary institutions.
He said that since the inception of the administration in May 2023, it had settled registration fees for Kano indigent students for WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, and NBAIS.
The Special Adviser pointed out that apart from settling the fees, Yusuf’s administration had also paid huge outstanding debts for WAEC, NECO, and NABTEB left behind by former Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s administration.
He also said it is part of Yusuf’s declaration of a state of emergency on education and an effort to mitigate the high number of out-of-school children that have bedeviled the state.
