Gov. Ododo approves another N542.416m for payment of Basic Six Common Entrance Examination, JAMB, BECE for 2025 academic session.
The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo, has approved another sum of N542.416m for the payment of First School leaving Certificate, Basic Six and Common Entrance Examination, JAMB and for Basic Education Certificate BACE 2025.
Addressing Newsmen, the Kogi State Commissioner For Education, Hon Wemi Jones, said the reason behind the policy of the State government is to increase school enrollment, reduce out of school children and ensure school completion period.
The Payment for the Basic Certificate Examination covers
25,100 pupil in public schools amounting to the sum of N145m.
Similarly, the payment for BECE examination is for 30500 students who are to write JSS3 examination across 21 LGAs of the State is put at N215m.
Similarly, the Payment of JAMB fee covers 18,734 students in SS3 classes at the cost of N181,719m.
The Commissioner said the State Government gesture is in line with the tenet of the Kogi State free examination law for students and pupils.
The Commissioner disclosed that the large chunk of N661m for payment of WAEC earlier made by the State Government has been released to the Ministry, pointing out that the process of profiling to ensure that only deserving Students benefit is on going across public institutions in the State before WAEC closes.
With the recent approval for the payment of BECE, JAMB and Common Entrance Examination, the State Government has paid over N1.1b as part of it free education program.