FG Commissions 70 Operational Vehicles, Others For NECO

The federal government has inaugurated new 70 operational vehicles for the National Examination Council (NECO) to enhance conduct of its examinations.

The government also commissioned the NECO Scanning Centre equipped with Optical Mark Reader (OMR) technology, a  cutting-edge software introduced by the council to ensure efficient grading of students and candidates in its various examinations.

Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, inaugurated the projects including NECO’s driver’s pool, block of three classrooms for the senior secondary component of NECO Staff School and a data centre.

Mamman who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr David Andrew Adejo, applauded the Registrar of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, for innovative measures introduced to ensure the credibility of assessment process, saying the five distinct projects being commissioned were critical to effective functioning and realisation of the mandate of the council.

He expressed the commitment of the current administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to transform the education sector in the country.

Mamman said the purchase of the logistics vehicles for ease of transportation examination materials, would substantially address the challenge of leakage of examination question papers as witnessed in the past.

NECO registrar, Prof. Wushishi, expressed commitment to provide quality assessment and ensure the integrity of the nation’s secondary school examinations.

He said logistics vehicles were a crucial component of the examination infrastructure, serving as a dedicated fleet of vehicles designed specifically for the transportation of essential examination materials, such as question papers and answer booklets.