Why Nigerian students should not pay for WAEC, NECO fees – Aisha Yesufu

Activist politician, Aisha Yesufu, has said Nigerian students should halt paying for the West African Examination Council, WAEC, and National Examination Council, NECO, fees.

Yesufu said bully and prime acquisition is the close of each Nigerian students.

His remark comes arsenic the Federal Government approved the sum of N50,000 for WAEC and NECO fees.

The Federal Ministry of Education gave the support for the summation of WAEC and NECO fees for Senior Secondary Certification Examination, SSCE, to N50,000 per campaigner starting from 2027.

The support was contained successful a caller memo dated June 18, 2026 and was signed by the Director of Senior Secondary Education, Federal Ministry of Education, Adeniji Ibrahim connected behalf of the ministry.

Reacting, Yesufu wrote connected X: “No pupil successful Nigeria should beryllium paying for WAEC and NECO. Good prime acquisition should beryllium a close Nigerian children enjoy.

“Primary and secondary acquisition is much beneficial to the authorities than the people. The outgo of an uneducated populace is excessively precocious for a State.”