WAEC Withholds Kano’s 70,000 Results Over Debt
No fewer than 70,000 candidates who sat the Secondary School Certificate Examination October/November 2020 in Kano have yet to receive their results.
The WAEC in January 2021 released results of 1,209,992 candidates that took the examination across the country.
According to WAEC, 894,101 candidates scored credits in English and Mathematics.
A reliable source at the NECO headquarters in Kano disclosed on Tuesday that the state government had yet to pay the outstanding registration fees running into millions of naira.
“The examination body has decided to hold on to the results until when the Kano state government settles the registration fees. waec has released results of private candidates, but candidates sponsored by the state government will not be released until payment is made,” the source said.
Kano Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Kiru, was not disposed to inquiry on the development at the time of filing the report.
In August 2020, Kano government approved the release of N489 million for registration of candidates writing NECO and WAEC. In December, it also released N32.4 million for state-sponsored indigent candidates writing SSCE in the state.
