PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN OGUN STATE NIGERIA ENJOYS FREE WASSCE FEE PAYMENT

          The Ogun State Government has assured prompt payment of the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fees for all final year students in the State Public Secondary Schools.
          Governor Amosun who gave the assurance while presenting 2016 Appropriation Bill to the State House of Assembly in Abeokuta, said education was germane to the rebuilding mission of the State.
          Amosun reaffirmed that he would provide more basic infrastructural facilities in schools and continue to pay the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fee in order to motivate younger ones to crave for academic excellence, make education more convenient and build more intellectual icons for the State.
          The Governor stated that his administration has yielded encouraging results in education in the past years with numerous national awards and laurels won by both teachers and students, stating that he would continue to encourage teachers by creating an enabling environment for promoting quality educational interaction.
          ‘’We will focus on the provision of basic infrastructural facilities, rehabilitate the dilapidated ones and build new ones. In addition, teacher training and development programmes will be intensified.
          Our administration will also continue to be responsible for the registration of students of Government Science and Technical Colleges in the State for National Technical Certificate / National Business Certificate (NTC/NBC) Examinations and also for the procurement of science practical equipment. Similarly, West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fee for all final year students in public secondary schools will continue to be our responsibility’’, Amosun said.
          Speaking on the Moribound state of the Vocational and Technical Colleges in the State, Governor Amosun said that his administration would bring back the colleges to life in order to meet the desired standards, emphasising that the era of sourcing for bricklayers, carpenters, welders and the likes from foreign countries would soon be over as the colleges would be up and doing to train needed and certified artisans.
          The Governor emphasized that the sum of N40, 170, 805, 280bn allocated to education sector top the table of proposed 2016 Budget in the State.