Gombe Releases N417m To Students For WAEC, NABTEB, NBAIS

Gombe State Executive Council (SEC) has approved 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.

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

In a SEC meeting presided over by the State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, he approved the sum of N331m as scholarship to a total of 16,113 students studying in various tertiary institutions across the country.

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The disclosure was made by the Commissioner of Education, 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.

She said that 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, the Council approved N417.5m for their payment.

She said that the amount will also take care of the online biometric registration, procurement of specimen and reagents for practicals, transportation of examination materials from Bauchi which is the WAEC cent monitoring and supervision of the examination.

She added that the Governor’s gesture since the inception of the administration had improved the rating of students of Gombe.

She further said that the sum of N331.1m has been approved by the Council for payment as an outstanding scholarship to 16,113 students from 2017 to 2022 academic sessions.