The Federal Government has inaugurated new 70 operational vehicles for the National Examination Council (NECO) for enhanced conduct of the Council’s examinations.
The feat the examination body maintained will ensure the security and timely delivery of examination materials to numerous examination centres nationwide.
Inaugurating the projects in Minna Niger state, the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, David Andrew Adejo, applauded the Registrar of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi for the innovative measures introduced to ensure the credibility of assessment process, saying the five distinct projects being commissioned were critical to effective functioning and realization of the mandate of the Council.
He expressed the commitment of the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to transform the education sector in the country.
Earlier, the NECO Registrar, Prof.Dantani Wushishi who reeled out various achievements of his administration in the last two and half years, pledged commitment to maintain the integrity of the council’s examinations.
It was not only about commissioning as the Council also observed it’s annual productivity award ceremony where more than 70 staff received various categories of awards.
Some of the commissioned projects include the multi-million naira NECO Scanning Centre, equipped with the state-of-the-art Optical Mark Reader (OMR) technology, Driver’s Pool, block of three classrooms for Senior Secondary component of NECO Staff School and Data Centre.
