Diri approves N192 million for 2,011 Bayelsa students’ NECO and WAEC fees
YENAGOA (Sundiata Scholar) – The release of N192 million has been approved by Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa, allowing 2,011 Senior Secondary School pupils in the state to take their final year exams in 2024 at no expense to their parents.
Chief Ayibaina Duba, Commissioner for Information, Orientation, and Strategy, informed the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yenagoa on Wednesday that the beneficiaries were pupils from the state’s thirteen Government Model Secondary Schools.
Duba said the approval was in consonance with the sustained policy of the governor in the past four years in the area of education.
He claimed that the government purposefully invests in education and the development of human capital by paying the WAEC and NECO examination fees each year.
“In addition to the payment of WAEC and NECO examination fees, government funds Unified Primary School Leaving Examination and Junior Secondary School Certificate examinations of pupils at no cost to parents,’’ he said.
Duba encouraged the people of Bayelsa to anticipate Governor Diri’s second term with greater optimism.
