Kogi Commended Over Senior Secondary Education Board Bill

Executive secretary of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC), Dr. Iyela Ajayi, has hailed the Kogi State House of Assembly for initiating a bill on the establishment of a Secondary School Education Board.

Ajayi, who was present at the public hearing on the bill to make a submission on the National Secondary School Education (NSSEC) Act 2023, lauded the Kogi State government and the House of Assembly for their commitment to the Kogi State Secondary School Education Board (KSSSEB) Bill.

Ajayi said the commencement of the democratic process was a clear demonstration of the state’s determination to domesticate the Senior Secondary Education Act, 2023.

This, he added, would regulate and provide the needed interventions for secondary education in the state.

In a statement by the head press and protocol, NSSEC, Fatima Ahmed Bappare, the executive secretary further made 14 observations and recommendations on the proposed bill, passage of which he said, would lead to the overall development of senior secondary schools in Kogi State.

Commenting on the public hearing on the KSSSEB Bill, the speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Alhaji Aliyu Umar Yusuf, lauded the NSSEC executive secretary for being a good ambassador of the state.

He stressed that his observations and recommendations had been noted by the lawmakers, and that the Assembly would guard against conflict that may arise between the state Ministry of Education, Science and Technical Education Board, Teaching Service Commission and the proposed KSSSEB when the bill is finally passed into law.

In his remarks to the House, former commissioner for Education in Kogi State, Mr Wemi Jones, noted that domestication of the NSSEC Act 2023 is a welcome development that will further develop the senior secondary school sub-sector in Kogi State, adding that the state government continues to make efforts to reposition education to make the state a reference point in education in the North.

Also present at the public hearing were representatives of the Kogi State chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) and the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS).