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According to reports, the
Federal Government, after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday,
announced the reduction in JAMB fee from N5,000 to N3,500 for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The amount charged for Senior
Secondary Certificate Examination by the National Examination Council (NECO)
was also reduced from 11,350 to N9,850 and Basic Education Certificate handled
by NECO was slashed from N5,500 to N4,000.
The reductions take effect from
January, 2019.
NANS’ National Public Relations
Officer, Mr Bestman Okereafor, while reacting in a statement issued in Enugu on
Thursday, commended the decision, NAN reports.
Okereafor, however, urged the
Federal Government to prioritise the issue of education, and especially the
ongoing ASUU/COEASU strike.
According to him, the strike
has truncated the chances of “some of our compatriots graduating in 2018,
simply because the academic calendar has been altered”.
The statement continued: “NANS
considers this decision as a good and progressive minded one, but strongly
believes that resolving the ongoing ASUU/COEASU strikes would be better.
“We are of the opinion that
schools must be made conducive for all students on campuses as it was in the
days of old.
“The Presidency must consider
making our campuses a conducive atmosphere for learning and research purposes.
“It is highly disheartening
that we have lost quite a handful of young, hardworking and promising Nigerian
students to the cold hands of death due to the ongoing strike.
“Even as some of our students
are now been exposed to various crimes, and drugs. For an idle hand they say is
the devil’s workshop.’’
Okereafor, however, appealed to
the leadership of ASUU not to frustrate the process of negotiation with the
Federal Government, rather consider suspending the strike in the best interest
of all concerned.
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