Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has authorised a subsidised price for the 2024 Fundamental Schooling Certificates Examination (BECE) for college kids in public colleges throughout the state.
About 55,150 candidates are to jot down the exams in Kwara State.
A press release by Peter Amogbonjaye, the press secretary within the state ministry of schooling and human capital growth, mentioned all candidates in public colleges would pay N2,500, the identical quantity charged final yr, as an alternative of N5,000.
The subsidy is a part of the efforts of the administration to help the scholars and their dad and mom, in addition to keep away from any scholar dropping out of faculty on account of the shortcoming to afford the examination.
The assertion added that the subsidy could be loved by all of the candidates anticipated to take a seat for the 2024 BECE. It warned public officers in opposition to extorting cash from dad and mom underneath any guise, and that anybody caught would face the implications of such an motion.