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West African Examinations Council on Wednesday said that the council
was still being owed N2bn registration fees by state governments for
their candidates who sat for the 2015 May/June West African Senior
School Certificate Examination.
WAEC’s Head of National Office, Dr. Charles Eguridu, gave the figure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
NAN reports that WAEC had
withheld the results of candidates from some states who had failed to
settle the registration fees of their students amounting to N4bn.
However, the council rescinded its decision after the intervention of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.
According to Eguridu, there is the need
for the indebted state governments to pay up, saying that the debt, is
hindering its operations.
“I want to state that about N2bn out of the over N4bn owed the council by some state governments was still outstanding.
“No fewer than 14 states so far have
responded to this; but I think the response should be better. This is
seriously affecting our operations.
“We had entered into a gentleman’s
Memorandum of Understanding with the concerned state governments because
we found out that they are equally trying to give education to Nigerian
children.
“And if they approach us, based on that, there is need for us to oblige them,” he said.
He said so far the ongoing
November/December diet of its General Certificate of Education for
private candidates had been hitch-free with no any major incident
recorded.
“The only little challenge we had was
the coinciding of some of our examination schedule with the time of
prayer of our Muslim candidates, and this has been immediately taken
care of.
“And so, for now, everything is moving on fine,’’ he said
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