President Buhari
While speaking after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting
in State House Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu,
revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has reduced the cost of forms
for some terminal examinations in the country.
He said the examination forms are for the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination, organised by the Joint Admission
Matriculation Board (JAMB), the Senior Secondary School Examination
conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO), as well as the
Basic Education Certificate Examination.
According to Tolu Ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi), the Head of Digital
Communications for President Buhari, who shared the news, the reduction
will take effect from January 2019.
He tweeted, “President Buhari has approved the reduction in the
cost of Forms for JAMB UTME, NECO SSCE and the Basic Education
Certificate Examination. With effect from January 2019, the cost of JAMB
UTME Form will drop from N5,000 to N3,500. NECO will drop from N11,350
to N9,850.
“Minister of Education Adamu Adamu announced this just now at
today’s #FECBrief. He said President Buhari directed the Ministry to
look into the reduction following the significant improvement in
revenues being remitted to the Treasury by the Education Agencies.
“The Exam Agencies are not meant to be revenue generating
bodies, they’re only supposed to cover costs/operating expenses. The
sharp increase in remittances by JAMB(from less than N60m in 2010–2016
to >N15 BILLION in 2017/18) have shown that the fees being charged
could be reduced.”