Gombe approves N417m for 21,988 students writing WAEC, NABTEB, NBAIS (tribuneonlineng.com)

Council approved N417.5m for payment.

The Commissioner added, A breakdown of it shows that for WAEC, we have registered 20,685 students.

For NABTEB, we have sponsored 1,167 and for NBAIS we have registered 136 students which gives us a total of 21,988 students.

Gombe State Executive Council (SEC) has approved the immediate release of the sum of N417.5m as payment for West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NABAIS) and National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) final examinations for secondary students in the state.

The benefiting students are the 21,988 students who scored 50 per cent and above in the Mock examinations recently conducted by the State Ministry of Education.

Also, the SEC meeting presided over by the State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya approved the sum of N331m as scholarship to a total of 16,113 students studying in various tertiary institutions across the country. window.aries window.aries window.aries.v1 window.aries.v1 commands const aries window.aries.v1 aries.commands.push(() > const zoneId ‘7238’ const anchor document.getElementById(‘vidverto220384c5a71e46dd814afa69547f2b3f’) anchor.removeAttribute(‘id’) aries.mount(zoneId, anchor, width 720, height 405, ) ) )()>

The disclosure was made by the Commissioner of Education, Dr Aishatu Maigari while briefing Journalists shortly after the 29th Council meeting presided by Governor saying that the 21,988 students is 78.59 per cent of the total number of candidates who had sat for the mock examinations.

According to her, 21,988 is the number of those who have scored 50 per cent and above in the mock examinations set by the administration and they formed 78.59 per cent of the total number of candidates who had sat for the mock examination.

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