The Non Academic Staff Union of Education and Associated Institutions, (NASU) National Examination Council (NECO Branch) has made a passionate appeal to the federal government not to contemplate the scrapping of the Council as it would be a set back to the education of the country and also negate a key essence in the transformation agenda of the federal government which is job creation.
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Addressing Journalists in Minna, Niger state, yesterday, chairman of NECO branch of the Union, comrade Abdulrasheed Rabana said the idea or recommendation of scrapping the Council shouldn't have been contemplated at all adding that investment in education should be seen as a matter of national security and should not be a compromise at all.
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"It is worrisome to every discerning mind that such a National Asset into which the nation has invested so much vision as well as human and material resources would be contemplated to fall a victim of yet another in the series of our much derided policy summersault just on the logic of rationalizing governance."
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He noted that rather than see the existence of the Council as a burden, it should be seen as a mark of national achievement pointing out that countries that still manage with one examination Institution are now struggling to establish more examination bodies especially with the global explosion in school enrolments and by implication, examination candidates.