Ekiti state
says it has retained its first position in the recently conducted National
Examination Council (NECO) test for secondary school students.
Of all the
states in the country, Ekiti recorded the best results in the 2016 Senior
Secondary School Examination (SSCE) of NECO.
Governor Ayo Fayose, in a
statement by Idowu Adelusi, his chief press secretary, said: “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.”
