In the same vein, the Niger State Governor Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu has challenged the NECO to check the spread of examination malpractice in the country.
NECO is responsible for the conduct of school- based examinations for senior secondary schools and that for November and December
Addressing governing board of the council headed by Prof. Paddy Njoku, who paid him a courtesy call in his residence in Minna, Babangida said that initially nobody gave NECO a chance, "but today, you are a force to reckoned with in the examinations bodies across the globe.
"I can confirm that NECO is doing well. I have close relationship with the management. They have made giant strides and have attained good standard," the former president said.
Babangida maintained that education remained one of the nation's greatest challenges and congratulated the Federal Government for being painstaking in the choice of the new NECO board members.
He added: "Your appointment is a challenge. I believe you have been called upon to contribute your own quota to the advancement of education in Nigeria. Let me urge the management to continue the good work you have started and I will not forget to let you know that the management of NECO has been very useful to us."
Babangida assured the council that he would always be willing to assist anytime he was called upon for assistance.
Exchanging views with Njoku who led other NECO's board to pay a courtesy call on him at Government House in Minna yesterday, Aliyu said that examination malpractice was already attaining an alarming situation requiring concerted efforts to arrest it.
He also said that involvement of candidates in examination fraud could be attributed to the fall in the standard of education, as most students were no longer working hard to pass their tests.
The governor regretted that some parents also encouraged their children to engage in malpractices by paying for people to either sit for examination for them or buy question papers for the wards.
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