Jigawa Releases N317 Million To NECO For Release Of Jigawa Students Result

Umar Akilu Majeri

The Jigawa state government has settled the payment of National Examination Council, NECO, Examinations fees for the immediate release of results of NECO exams for the 800,000 Jigawa students who sat for this year’s examination.

This was disclosed by the Director-General State Education and Monitoring Unit Malam Abdullahi Yunusa in an interview in his office.

The Director said N317 million was spent for the payment of this year’s NECO exams, adding that Jigawa students are advised to check their NECO results on NECO’s website from Thursday or Friday.

The director added that the government will establish a committee under JERD Jigawa Education Resources Development to find the students with high scores in order to set up a merit award for them.

According to him, various workshops and training of teachers on capacity building were organized by the Ministry Of Education for teachers especially science and mathematics teachers.

He also stated that all the Principals in the state were trained on quality assurance control.

Speaking further he said over 1350 teachers have benefited from various teaching skills, even as he said the state government will hire 4000 teachers and that the state will select the best among them to be converted as permanent and pensionable teachers where they will be posted to their respective local government areas to teach as teachers.