Borno State Governor,Babagana Zulum has directed the immediate reintroduction of the common entrance examination at primary six levels in all public schools across the State.
The Governor who gave the directive in Maiduguri after meeting with the 84 principals of all secondary school in the state added that henceforth “No common entrance No JSS 1”.
The Governor also directed that school authorities must henceforth take all qualifying and promotional examinations seriously as Government will monitor all conducts.
Addressing the principals,the Governor frowned at the quality of SS3 students that the state is producing ,he conditioned them said to be honest in telling him the realities of challenges in the system, rather than cover-up for fear of victimization.
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He said the aim of the meeting was to get a first hand, undiluted information from the principals, on problems facing public secondary school system in Borno with the hope to address them for better performance.
The Governor went down memory lane to remind the principals of glorious days, and the need for all stakeholders to regain quality in public school system.
Zulum assured that measures will continually be adopted to improve the training and welfare of teachers and administrators of public school system to motivate high performance while supervision will be drastically changed for the purpose of punishing those unready to change.
After the Governor’s remark, the principals took turns to voice out problems of the 84 secondary schools across Borno’s 27 local government areas.
Most of the principals complained about poor quality of primary school graduates who come into secondary schools without strong foundation.
They urged the Governor to critically look into reintroduction of common entrance examination at primary six levels, which should be yardstick for admission into secondary schools.
After listening to them the Governor however directed that common entrance be reintroduced adding that henceforth only pupils who pass the examination by securing a cut-off mark, should be eligible for admission into the first year of junior secondary schools (JSS 1), as against giving admissions to all pupils regardless of common entrance criteria.
