Kebbi rejects false NECO ranking, says public schools opted for WAEC since 2022

By Victor Ahiuma-Young

The Kebbi State Government has dismissed arsenic mendacious and misleading a work claiming that the authorities ranked past (37th) successful the 2025 National Examinations Council (NECO) show rating.

In a connection implicit the play , the Commissioner for Basic Education, Dr. Halima M. Bande, said the study was mischievous and intended to discredit the genuine reforms being implemented successful the acquisition assemblage nether Governor Nasir Idris, Kauran Gwandu.

Bande explained that Kebbi State had stopped sponsoring nationalist schoolhouse students for NECO examinations since 2022, opting alternatively for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) arsenic its preferred examining body.
“For the past 4 years, nationalist schools successful Kebbi State person not participated successful NECO examinations. Therefore, immoderate effort to fertile Kebbi successful NECO 2025 is baseless and lacks credibility,” she said.

The commissioner noted that lone a fistful of backstage schools successful the authorities inactive registry their students for NECO, stressing that their constricted results could not service arsenic a just yardstick to measurement the wide show of the state’s acquisition sector.

“The criteria utilized successful ranking Kebbi State past are inaccurate, faulty, and cannot stand. Since our nationalist schools were not portion of NECO, nary genuine examination tin beryllium made,” Bande stated.

She further emphasized Governor Idris’s pedigree arsenic a teacher, unionist, and educationist who has made acquisition a apical precedence of his administration. According to her, reforms, investments, and policies introduced nether his enactment are already transforming schools crossed the state.

“The allegation that Kebbi State came past successful NECO 2025 is false, unverified, and without factual basis. The nationalist should disregard specified fabrications,” she added.
Bande assured that Governor Idris remains committed to repositioning Kebbi State’s acquisition sector, insisting that advancement nether his ticker is visible, measurable, and impactful.

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