The House of Representatives has frowned at the decision of the management of the National Examination Council (NECO) to bring about 1500 of its staff from across the country to its headquarters in Minna to write a promotion exam.
Adopting a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Hon. Akeem Adeyemi, the House said the board to consider suspending the decision and allowing the promotion examination to be done at its zonal offices across the country given the security and economic situation of the country.
The Nation learnt that NECO has asked the affected staff to travel to Minna at their expense to participate in the promotion examination, as against the previous practice of conducting the exercise at the zonal offices.
Adeyemi informed the House that through a circular dated January 9, the National Examination Council (NECO) scheduled to hold her 2024 staff promotion examination on 14th & 15th February 2024 at the Federal University of Technology, (FUT), Minna, Niger State.
He said that in another circular dated 17th January 2024, the board published the names of about thousand, five hundred (1,500) staff to partake in the said 2024 Promotion Examination on 14th & 15th February 2024 at the Federal University of Technology, (FUT), Minna, Niger State.
According to him, the board had conducted the promotion examination for her staff at various zonal/regional offices without necessarily making a large number of staff from different States of the Federation travel and converge at one place for the promotion exercise.
He explained that due to the security situation in the country and the economic hardship biting hard on the citizens including the Staff of the National Examination Council (NECO), it is perilous to cause about 1,500 staff to travel from different parts of the country to one place in the name of Promotion Examination.
He said as an examination body which conducts examinations for candidates all over the country, the organisation can conduct promotion examinations for its staff in different States of the Federation.
SEE MOTION BELOW:
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
NOTICE PAPER
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A MOTION ON MATTER OF URGENT PUBLIC IMPORTANCE
BY
Hon. Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi
ON
THE URGENT NEED TO REVIEW THE PLANNED PROMOTION EXAMINATION BY NECO FOR ABOUT 1500 STAFF TO CONVERGE AT MINNA, NIGER STATE ON 14TH & 15th FEBRUARY, 2024 IN VIEW OF THE SECURITY SITUATION AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IN THE COUNTRY
The House:
Notes that the National Examination Council (NECO) by her Circular dated 9th January, 2024 is billed to hold her 2024 STAFF PROMOTION EXAMINATION on 14th & 15th February, 2024 at Federal University of Technology, (FUT), Minna, Niger State.
Also notes that NECO by her Circular dated 17th January, 2024 published the names of about one thousand, five hundred (1,500) staff to partake in the said 2024 Promotion Examination on 14th & 15th February, 2024 at Federal University of Technology, (FUT), Minna, Niger State.
Aware that in the past, the examination body has conducted similar promotion examinations for her staff at various zonal/regional offices without necessarily making large number of staff from different States of the Federation to travel and converge at one place for the promotion exercise.
Concerned that due to security situation in the country and the economic hardship biting hard on the citizens including the Staff of the National Examination Council (NECO), it is perilous to cause about 1,500 staff to travel from different parts of the country to one place in the name of Promotion Examination.
Believed that the examination body which conducts examinations for candidates all over the country has the capacity to conduct promotion examination for her staff at different States of the Federation.
Resolves to:
1. Mandate the Committees on Education Examination Board and Basic Education to interact with the National Examination Council (NECO) on her planned 2024 Promotion Examination for about 1,500 staff at a place viz-a-viz the security and economic situation of the country.
