‘ The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu , on Wednesday said the Federal Government was worried about the low number of candidates seeking admission into its 104 colleges across the country , who registered for the 2018 National Common Entrance Examination .
The minister , in a statement released in Abuja by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Education, Mrs . Priscillia Ihuoma , noted that only 28 candidates from Zamfara State registered for the examination .
Pleading with state governments , heads of schools and interest groups to persuade school - age children in the areas with low registration to register for the examination , he said that a directive had been given to leave the portal open for registration until April 13.
Adamu said the report of a stakeholders ’ meeting held recently indicated that Taraba , Kebbi and Zamfara states had the lowest number of candidates who registered for the entrance examination . While Taraba had 95 candidates, Kebbi had 50.
The release read in part, “ Ahead of the 2018 National Common Entrance Examination for admission of candidates into the 104 Federal Government colleges on Saturday, April 14, the minister has expressed worry over low registration for the examination so far .
“According to him , the report of a meeting of major stakeholders in the education sector said candidates registered in 2018 stood at 71, 294 as against 80, 421 that wrote the examination in 2017 .
“The report further shows three states with the highest number of pupils registered so far are : Lagos with 24 ,465 candidates, the Federal Capital Territory , Abuja, with 7 ,699 and Rivers State with 4, 810 candidates respectively . On the other hand, three states with extreme low registration are : Zamfara with only 28 candidates, Kebbi , 50 and Taraba , 95 candidates respectively . ”
The minister said the examination would go on as planned and urged state governments, parents, heads of schools and relevant interest groups in areas to take steps to remedy the situation.

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Education is haram in zamfara . Please leave us alone

How can they be encouraged to go to school when the one enjoying the exalted leadership position in the country is from their region without certificate?

Yet Zamfara State got more money than Enugu and Ebonyi States combined together in the Federal Government Primary schools free feeding programme

Lol! The exam body messed up big time. They should have told them the registration was for PVC. People for still dey queue till this morning.

Lol. Till date I can't see the relevance of The Common entrance Examination. Maybe those pupils has also noticed that.

I just can't laugh. North, right? Am not surprised

Quota system is there to help them

Hmmmmm It is well........

Tomorrow they will produce president

Go and check the allocation on education now! na millions u go de sea.... they are not interested in schooling yet they want power, and one way or the other, they are getting the power..

Na wa o!

The northern elites don't want the almajiris to go to school, their ignorance is the source of their power

28 candidates in the whole state

hmm. this is serious o

Trust me, half of those 28 candidates are Southerners!

The only education to them is Quran, which in other hand encouraged them to maim and annihilate infidels. How will this country improve with this level of ignorance from some set of people. Education is key to any success in life but these people believe knowing Quran alone is sufficient. I give up on this country.

Before you know, thuggery, yandaba, dandaba, Boko Haram and all other stvpid things will metamorphose.

Still, they will be clamoring for united Nigeria, while a part of a country continue failing to invest in human development and want to have a safe society, no wonder they are feeling the heat left and right.

The rest would rather register for Boko Haram.
Western education is sin.
Don't you believe it that most of these people are not sympathetic to Boko haram. No wonder they came out en masse to welcome them in Dapchi.

Please give these people a country of their own already.

Promise each child who registers a calf and watch the number increase

and the few will still be in charge of the judiciary, army, executive customs, defence and what have you. Their role model gat no certificate and he is the zoo president, so why will they bother attending

The other kids are being trained to be the next generation boko haram, almajiri, and Fulani herdsmen. They're being trained to disturb kids that are currently in school in the near future.

This is how Nigeria has been recycling illiteracy. The population of those out of school, of course, will surpass the 32, and they will decide who should be president over everyone, including those in schools. After training your kids to be Developmental Economists, Petroleum Economists, etc., these illiterates will get the voter card and decide for your children the ideal president.

Like what we have now, the educated ones will do nothing but sit on the Internet and their homes to complain, groan and wait for appointments from the illiterate political lords.

oneda:
The rest would rather register for Boko Harambe.
Western education is sin.
Don't you believe it that most of these people are sympathetic with Boko haram. No wonder they came out en masse to welcome them in Dapchi.

Please give these people a country of their own already.

Harambe! Damn. Americans are crazy. The Walmart Yodeling kid is the next big thing to happen to the internet

Western Education is Haram in the north

It is only normal the number to be small


This is no news

They prefer jihad, mosque, cow rearinng to schooling. What do you expect

Which will result in low cutoff marks as most of the candidates will not even score so high and do not even tally up to the total slots allocatable to Zamfara, resulting in an inability to fulfill their allocated admission slots in the quota system.


But some greedy souls would still be looking over their own fence and lamenting as to why their own state had to have such high cut off marks while Zamfara has very low marks, labelling it as marginalization as though their own states do not also already have their allocated slots that is guaranteed within the quota system.

Backwardness, what a drag for this country

People are scared of federal govt schools

I bet you this 28 will be making rules in this damn country in the future. Maybe na Igbo people ask them not to register more.

QuietHammer:

Harambe! Damn. Americans are crazy. The Walmart Yodeling kid is the next big thing to happen to the internet

Typo is biatch

Throwback:
Which will result in low cutoff marks as most of the candidates will not even score so high and do not even tally up to the total slots allocatable to Zamfara, resulting in an inability to fulfill their allocated admission slots in the quota system.


But some greedy souls would still be looking over their own fence and lamenting as to why their own state had to have such high cut off marks while Zamfara has very low marks, labelling it as marginalization as though their own states do not already have their allocated slots that is guaranteed within the quota system.

Scrap quota system, and watch this country thrive on merit.