Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to
the recent mass failure recorded by Nigerian students in
the May/June 2014 West African Examinations Council
(WAEC).
Vanguard reports that the former president in a statement
issued in Abuja, attributed the student’s failure to the non-
chalant attitude of government to the education sector
starting from primary to tertiary level.
Atiku, who described the student’s failure as the nation’s
failure said, the development was no longer a surprise to
anyone considering the several strikes embarked upon by
academicians.
Read the full statement below:
“The West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, has just
released the results of the May/June 2014 Senior School
Certificate Examination. As was the case last year, mass
failure was recorded by Nigerian students.
“Only 31.28 per cent of the students who sat for the
2014 exam obtained credits in five subjects and above,
including Mathematics and English Language.
“No one who has been observing the ongoing attitude
towards education in Nigeria will be surprised by this. In
the past year alone, industrial actions by teachers have
dominated the news headlines. Primary school teachers in
Benue State, for example, embarked on an eight-month
strike to demand better conditions and allowances.
“Teachers all over Nigeria remain poorly paid, with
several jokes being peddled about how parents are
reluctant to allow their daughters marry teachers.
“In addition to poor welfare, teachers in the Northeast
of Nigeria face a peculiar challenge not common to
their colleagues in other parts of the country” the
statement read.
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