{"id":27454,"date":"2024-04-16T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=27454"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:24:52","slug":"ekiti-government-pays-n546m-for-waec-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/16\/ekiti-government-pays-n546m-for-waec-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti Government Pays N546m for WAEC Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Bimpe Aderiye, disclosed that the state government has disbursed a total of N546.90 million for the 2024 West Africa Examination Council\/ Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC\/SSCE) fees. Aderiye confirmed this in a statement released to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, stressing that the amount covered administrative expenses for all 16,269 SSS 3 students from public secondary schools in the state who registered for the exam.<\/p>\n<p>Aderiye emphasized that no public secondary school in the state was permitted to collect a WAEC registration fee. She warned that any administrators from Ekiti&#8217;s public schools demanding such a fee would be engaging in sabotage. The commissioner cautioned parents and guardians against paying unauthorized fees, noting that such actions undermine the government&#8217;s objectives and impede efforts to enhance the socioeconomic conditions of the populace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Bimpe Aderiye, disclosed that the state government has disbursed a total of N546.90 million for the 2024 West Africa Examination Council\/ Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC\/SSCE) fees. Aderiye confirmed this in a statement released to journalists in Ado-Ekiti, stressing that the amount covered administrative expenses for all 16,269 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":27455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-27454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27456,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27454\/revisions\/27456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}