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Olugbemi. Adeyinka Ogunleye
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Over 26,000 Lagos students failed 2024 WASSCE – Commissioner
The Lagos State Government has disclosed that 26,592 public school students failed the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, raising alarm across the state’s education sector. The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Jamiu Alli-Balogun, during a ministerial press briefing on Thursday in Alausa, Ikeja, said that “45.7 per cent of the 58,188 students from public schools who sat for the exams did not pass.”.
This failure rate comes despite the state government’s significant financial backing — ₦1.577 billion was paid on behalf of the students to cover WAEC fees. “Suffice to say that the sum of ₦1,577,794,000 only was paid by the state government as examination fees for 58,188 students who were captured for the year 2024 WASSCE,” Alli-Balogun announced.
In a bid to tighten accountability and avoid wastage, the commissioner disclosed that biometric and image registration was carried out to accurately determine eligible students for government sponsorship for the 2025 WASSCE. “The exercise successfully captured and registered 56,134 students as bona fide beneficiaries of the Lagos state government’s sponsorship for the examination,” he added.
More: https://punchng.com/over-26000-lagos-students-failed-2024-wassce-commissioner/
