33, 614 candidates pass
NABTEB examination
A total of 33,614 candidates have passed
the National Business and Technical
Examination Board (NABTEB) examination
held in May/June across the country.
Olatunde Aworanti, the registrar and chief
executive of NABTEB, made this known
when he officially released the results on
Wednesday in Benin.
Aworanti said 143,755 candidates sat for
the examination this year as against
109,416 candidates in 2011, adding that
28,951 of the candidates were certified as
craftsmen.
He said the 33,614 candidates, representing
23.4 percent, had five credits including
English Language and Mathematics, while a
total of 59,100 candidates, representing
41.1 percent had five credits and above but
with only English or Mathematics.
The registrar said that the examination was
conducted in 1,750 schools as against
1,306 schools/ centres in 2011.
“As much as we appreciate the increase in
the enrolment of candidates, the recorded
figure of 143,755 is still much below
expectation in meeting the socio-economic
aspiration of this nation.
“For our nation to be first among equals in
technology development, vocational
activities at the early stage of education
should be seen as a strategy for catching
them young,” he said.
According to Aworanti, techno-
entrepreneurship syndrome should be a
national slogan in this era of knowledge
explosion.
“The quest for knowledge in technology
and entrepreneurshi p development is
meant to make both Nigerian adults and
children to be highly skilful and self reliant.”
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