NECO Withholds Over 80,000 Kano Students Result

Thousands of outgoing secondary school students in Kano state, may not be able to access admission into tertiary institutions because NECO has withheld their results due to the inability of the State Government to clear debts.

The post secondary school future of over 80,000 students in Kano state, hangs in the balance as the state government could not pay their NECO examination fees amounting to over N500 million.

According to report, 70% of the students who sat for the NECO examination in 2021,were sponsored by their parents, but till date there is no news of when the examination body will release their results.

This development has made rights organisations to put pressure on the government so that the chances of going to higher institutions of these students during this session,is not jeopardised.

Kano state is said to be among states such as Adamawa, Niger and Zamfara that are owing NECO millions  of Naira as a result of their inability to pay their students exams fee.

Already, some rights groups have written to the State government, notifying it of the plight of the students and urged the government to take the necessary action.

Also, a leader of an NGO, Umar Ibrahim Umar,said the complaints they got from students at a time tertiary institutions are about closing admission intake, made them to intensify the call for government to solve the problem.

Umar said they will take the necessary measures to see that the results are released to the students, because majority paid the exams fees themselves.

According to reports, NECO is being owed over N500m by the Kano State Government, despite the fact that last week, the state government said it has reduced the debt by paying N100 million.

The Kano  state government has attributed the mounting debt to economic recession and inadequate flow of IGR.

However, there are reports that this is not the first time the Kano state government found itself in such situation,because every year there are complaints from students of the withholding of their results due to uncleared  debts .