Mass failure: Fg summons NECO boss

AGAIN, Federal Government, on Tuesday, summoned the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examination Council (NECO) Professor Promise Okpala, over what it described as unacceptable poor results of the June/July 2010 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) released on Monday.

Minister of State for Education, Mr Kenneth Gbagi, who said this while briefing newsmen in Abuja, in commemoration of the 2010 Year of Peace and Security, said he was sad and never satisfied with the results released by NECO on Monday, in which only 21 per cent of the candidates that sat for the examination passed English Language and Mathematics at credit level.

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He also spoke of a plan for another summit on examination barely four months after hosting an elaborate examination summit in response to mass failure recorded in Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO) and West African Examination Council (WAEC).

Reacting to the poor performance of candidates in the examination, the minister while briefing newsmen alongside the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Professor Dapo Afolabi, disclosed that the ministry was neither happy nor satisfied with the recent result released by NECO and as such would be convening another examination summit.

The results released indicated another huge failure rate as less than 22 per cent of the total 1,132,357 of the students that sat for the exam passed English Language and Mathematics at distinction and credit levels.

Fielding questions from journalists the minister said that already the Registrar of NECO, Professor Promise Okpala, had been summoned to the ministry over the issue, adding that unlike before, teachers would now be recertified every three years rather than every five years.