EKITI STATE TOPS NECO RESULTS 2017, RETAINS FIRST POSITION AGAIN
EKITI STATE TOPS NECO RESULTS 2017, RETAINS FIRST POSITION
AGAIN
Efforts by the Ayodele Fayose-led
administration in Ekiti State to reposition the education sector have again
yielded positive results as the state retained her first position in the
National Examinations Council secondary leaving examinations conducted by the
body for 2017.
The good news was broken in
Ado-Ekiti, on Thursday, by Governor Fayose while meeting with retirees at the
Government House, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr.
Idowu Adelusi.
Recall that the state came first in
the same examinations in 2016 among the 36 states in the country.
Also, going by available data, the
state is set to also improve significantly in her position in the West African
Examinations Council.
“Our efforts in the education sector
are yielding positive results, we have retained our first and leading position
in this year’s NECO examinations. Last year we came first and we have done it
again.
” I am promising the people of the
state that we are going to maintain that leading position throughout my tenure
and it will continue by the grace of God when my deputy, Prof. Kolapo
Olusola-Eleka takes over from me.
” Apart from being diligent, he is
the one supervising the education sector and I am proud of his commitment to
duty and I am assuring you that with him in the saddle, things would get
better.
“When I first came to office in 2003,
the sector was in bad shape and we organised the first Education Summit and we
moved from number 34 in the federation to seven and first in the Sourh-West. I
came back again to meet it in a bad state and we took some steps and here we
are.
” Last year when we came first, some
critics who would not see anything good in other people said we reaped from
what our predecessor left. Now we have proved them wrong.
“We are the first when it comes to
the motivation of teachers and assisting them with teaching aids and materials.
No state celebrates teachers like we do during the annual Teachers’ Day,” he
said.
