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Parents, Students Lament As NECO Reschedules Examination To 2021

Parents, school owners and students on Tuesday lamented after the National Examinations Council said the missed papers during the just concluded NECO exams would hold in February 2021.

The NECO Registrar, Mr Godswill Obioma, in a statement on Tuesday disclosed that the papers would be taken during the Senior School Certificate Examination holding between February 1 and March 3, 2021.’

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Some of the papers include Chemistry Paper 1, Commerce paper II and III, Economics and Technical drawing.

Students in Lagos, Bayelsa, Rivers, and Edo, among others, were reportedly prevented from taking the papers due to the EndSARS protests.

The statement reads partly, “The management of the National Examinations Council has graciously approved that the Chemistry Paper I and Commerce Papers II and III postponed in the wake of the EndSARS protests be taken during the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE external) holding between February 1 and March 3 2021.

“Candidates with any specific challenge involving Economics II & III and Technical Drawing I should take advantage of this opportunity.”

According to Punch, the Lagos State Chairman, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Mr Olawale Amusa, said the development would have both negative and psychological effects on the candidates, adding that it was not a right decision by the council.

He said, “It will affect the children who are relying on such result for admission. Many higher institutions have started processing admission, and some of them need it. For the council to have postponed it to next year will have a great effect on the children. It will affect the admission processing. It will affect them psychologically.”

Similarly, a parent, who gave her name only as Mrs Tade, said she would not allow her daughter to sit for the remaining papers.

“That was a senseless decision by NECO; why should they postpone the exam to February? I will not allow my daughter to sit for the exam again, and it is of no use,” she said. 

 

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