Nigeria: NECO Needs to Charge More for Ssce Registrar

3 January 2013
interview

The National Examinations Council (NECO) says it requires more funding to conduct its final year public examinations. Who would bear the cost? Parents, schools or government? Registrar of NECO Professor Promise Okpala explains more and unravels the controversy around the mass failure for students who take its examinations. Excerpts:

12 years in the business of conducting examinations and NECO still appears to be a hard sell to Nigerians why?

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