The House of Representatives has mandated the Committee on Education Examination Board and Basic Education to meet with the National Examination Council (NECO) over its planned 2024 promotion examination for about 1500 staff considering the security and economic situation in Nigeria.
The resolution by the House followed the adoption of a motion on a matter of urgent public importance moved by Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi, titled “The urgent need to review the planned promotion examination by neco for about 1500 staff to converge at Minna, Niger state on 14th & 15th February 2024 in view of the security situation and economic hardship in the country”
While moving the motion, the lawmaker said that the National Examination Council (NECO) by her circular dated 9th January 2024 is billed to hold her 2024 Staff promotion examination on 14th & 15th February 2024 at the Federal University of Technology, (FUT), Minna, Niger State.
He noted that the House is aware that in the past, the examination body has conducted similar promotion examinations for its staff at various zonal/regional offices without necessarily making the staff from different States of the Federation travel and converge at one place for the promotion exercise.
He added that, due to the security situation in the country and the economic hardship biting hard on the citizens including the staff of the National Examination Council (NECO), it is perilous to cause about 1,500 staff to travel from different parts of the country to one place in the name of promotion examination.
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Adeyemi said the House believes that the examination body which conducts examinations for candidates all over the country has the capacity to conduct promotion examinations for her staff in different States of the Federation.
When the motion was put into voice vote by the Speaker Tajudeen Abbas who presided over the plenary session, it was unanimously supported by members of the House.
The motion was therefore referred to the House Committee on Education Examination Board and Basic Education for further legislative action
Emmanuel Ukoh
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