Bill that will strengthen Secondary Education gets senate’s approval

In a bid to stem the negative development in education being faced by the Nigerian nation, the Senate on Tuesday, approved the National Senior Secondary Education Commission Bill, 2022.

The approval came after the consideration of a report by the Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary).

Senator Akon Eyakenyi (PDP – Akwa-Ibom South), in a presentation on behalf of the Committee’s Chairman, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam (APC – Yobe East), said the bill which has 33 clauses, is seeking to repeal the existing Act on National Secondary Education Commission. 

According to Eyakenyi, the bill when assented into would strengthen the legislative framework for the functioning of the Senior Secondary Education sector. 

The lawmaker added that, “It is also seeking to address the unfortunate abandonment of the Senior Secondary Education in Nigeria in terms of regulatory and financial intervention which hitherto were extended to Primary and Junior Secondary Education through UBEC, and the Tertiary Education Institutions through TETFUND, NBTE, NCCE.”

“The bill also will make provision for the source of funding for the intervention and modalities for benefitting therefrom”, she said.