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By Deborah Akpede
The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Dantani Wushishi, has promised to ascertain examination centres for the police in Lagos State.
He made the promise throughout a courtesy go to to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr Olohundare Jimoh, on the Command Headquarters in Ikeja.
Wushishi stated that NECO would think about establishing six centres for police households to entry the examination.
“NECO conducts 5 totally different examinations: National Gifted Examination which is the examination for placement into Federal Government Academy, Suleja; National Common Entrance Examination; the Basis Education Certificate Examination.
“Others are Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (inner); and Senior Secondary School Certificate (exterior) for personal candidates, that is an examination that requires college students, who haven’t been capable of make credit requirement for admission into tertiary establishments, to sit down and make up the required credit.
“We conduct most of these examination within the sense that any candidate can apply; now we have centres specifically designated that candidates can select as near the residence of the candidates.
“All police families can fix into the categories of examinations,” he stated.
Wushishi stated that the board would ship its males to the areas the Lagos State Command needed its centres to be established.
“We will ship our males to look out among the amenities that can require such centres to be accessible for approval.
“By the grace of God, we’re going to do this, it is vitally necessary as a result of the Nigeria Police is serving the nation and their kids will need to have easy accessibility to examinations to remediate their failed topics to have the ability to additional their schooling.
“The request is essential to the police and their kids and in addition for the nation.
“It is obligation certain on the nation to take entry to schooling very straightforward and this is without doubt one of the methods we will present entry to police kids which have handed Senior Secondary School and ready to mediate their outcomes.
“As fast as we received the request from the police, we will send our men to access the area centres that the command wants us to approve for examination centres,” he stated.
According to him, NECO’s problem is funding within the space of provision of some bodily infrastructure akin to places of work and another issues to make conductive workplace work straightforward.
He thanked the Police for finishing up safety surveillance and bodily safety throughout its examinations.
“We have examination intelligence committee, this is our covered committee, it has to do with examination infringement investigation; the committee is collaborating with the police to successfully apprehend those partaking in examination malpractice,” he stated.
According to him, Lagos is without doubt one of the largest states that gives the most important variety of candidates.
“Lagos offers second largest candidates for Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) inner after Kano State.
“Last yr, Lagos offered over 98,000 candidates for the SSCE, second to Kano that offered over 104,000 candidates.
“Our collaboration with Nigeria Police has been on for a really very long time. The police have been aiding NECO to conduct examination peacefully, mounting surveillance and mounting safety.
“We have a lot of places we conduct examination in Lagos and the police have been cooperating with us,” he stated.
He congratulated the brand new CP for his new appointment and wished him the very best of luck.
CP Jimoh stated that the collaboration between police and NECO would proceed.
“Lagos Police and NECO have been collaborating and can proceed this partnership. This collaboration has been occurring for years, examination safety has been one of many tasks of the police.
“We have been working with the Intelligence Department in NECO to make sure that planning for securing examination conduct within the pre-examination interval, examination interval, and post-examination interval has been occurring easily.
“We will double our commitment to NECO and take it to higher level, we are ready to give NECO all the cooperation it deserves,” he stated.
According to him, the six areas picked for the institution of NECO centres are the areas of want, three centres on the Island and three on the Mainland; these areas are near populated areas the place police households are a lot in quantity.
“We know this will be granted and it will be far reaching in enhancing the police children, wards and families have access to the centres close to where they are living,” he stated. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Benson Iziama