By Chika Nwachukwu
National Examinations Council, NECO, has paid the allowances of the 72,138 examiners engaged as ad-hoc staff in the 2024 school-based Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE.
A statement signed by its Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Azeez Sani, stated that the council commenced payment of the examiners on October 4 on bank basis.
“This was to ensure easy reconciliation and to avoid clumsiness in the payment process. NECO has completed the payment of the examiners allowances as at today, Wednesday November 13 according to the payment plan of the council,” the statement said.
NECO noted that it discovered that some examiners submitted incorrect bank details, which the council has reconciled with the affected examiners.
“Out of the 24 banks being used for the payment, all have been cleared.
“It is therefore incorrect and false as being speculated recently in the social media that the council has deliberately refused to pay examiners engaged in the conduct of the 2024 SSCE Internal.
“The management advices that any person(s) engaged by the council should seek clarification/explanation from it, on matters oblivious to them before resorting to the media,” the statement said.
It reassured the examiners and other ad-hoc staff that the council cherished their invaluable contributions to the effective conduct of its examination and will therefore not take their remuneration for granted.
