Kano spends N3b on WASSCE, NECO, others for 141,175 students

Kano State governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has approved the disbursement of over N3 billion to cover registration fees for 141,175 secondary school students who passed the 2024 qualifying examinations to sit for this year’s WASSCE, NECO, NABTEB, and NBAIS.

The funding was confirmed in a statement released by the Governor’s Special Adviser on Information, Ibrahim Adam, on Friday.

The statement also quoted the state’s Commissioner for Education, Ali Haruna Makoda, who announced that the results of the qualifying examinations for secondary school students under the Kano State Teachers Service Board and the Science and Technical Schools Board had been released.

Makoda noted, “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).”

He explained that only students who scored five credits and above were eligible to benefit from the state government’s financial support.

“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 directed all secondary school principals and directors to notify their students of their results in order to facilitate the payment process.

The qualifying exams serve as the required gateway for students seeking to register for the 2025 senior school certificate examinations necessary for entry into tertiary institutions.

According to Ibrahim Adam, the current administration has consistently supported indigent students since assuming office in May 2023.

Ibrahim Adam stated that the present government has continuously provided financial assistance to underprivileged students in Kano State since it began its term in May 2023.

He noted that the administration has paid the registration fees for these students for several national examinations, including WAEC, NECO, NABTEB, and NBAIS.

He also disclosed that the government has cleared significant debts owed to WAEC, NECO, and NABTEB by previous administrations. These efforts, he said, are part of Governor Yusuf’s broader education agenda.

“It is part of Governor 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,” Adam added.