BY ALIYU DANGIDA
DUTSE—Jigawa State is celebrating what it described as the enormous success recorded in the education sector as 10.5 per cent of its secondary students passed the 2010 West African Examinations Council, WAEC, results in the country.

In the previous year, only 2.4 per cent of the students passed same examination.

In an interview with newsmen shortly after the State Executive Council, SEC, meeting at Government House, Dutse, Commissioner for Information, Youth, Sports and Culture, Alhaji Babandi Gumel, said the successful students obtained five credits including English language and Mathematics in the just- released WAEC results in the state, showing appreciable progress in the education sector.

Acoording to the Commissioner, the affected students can now pursue their admissions in various tertiary institutions anywhere in the world for further studies as the government was ready to bankroll their education as a tradition.

Gumel who attributed the improvement to the Jigawa State Government’s commitment towards improving the lot of the people through education, adding that the sector had always been given top prioriy by the Governor Sule Lamido’s administration.

Alhaji Babandi further explained  that government had equally provided opportunity for the students that failed in the WAEC examinations to embark on remedial studies at Ringim to enable them re-sit their examinations so as to catch up with their colleagues, pointing out that SEC-in -session ‘’expressed its appreciation on the success recorded by the state in the just concluded WAEC result,’’ just as he reiterated the commitment of the Lamido led administration towards educating children in the state, while noting the cooperation of the state ministry of education in thet regard.

-Tribune

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