2022 WAEC: Borno State Gov. offsets fees owed by students to enable them access their results

Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara, has approved the release of over three hundred million naira to offset fees owed the West African Examination Council (WAEC) by 21,827 students of public secondary schools who wrote this year’s (2022) examination across Borno State.

The State’s Commissioner for Education, Engr Lawan Abba Wakilbe, disclosed this on Wednesday in Maiduguri during a ceremonial presentation of cheque to officials of WAEC.

The commissioner said the money, totalling Three Hundred and Twenty Nine Million, Eight Hundred and Five Thousand, Eight Hundred Naira (N329,805,800) was already in WAEC’s account. 

The cheque presentation was held at the conference hall of the state’s Ministry of Education in Musa Usman Secretariat.