The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced that it has paid the allowances of all 72,138 examiners engaged as ad-hoc staff for the 2024 School-based Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).
This was stated in a press release to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday by NECO’s Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, Azeez Sani.
Sani mentioned that the Council began disbursing the examiners’ allowances on October 4, following a bank-based payment system to facilitate reconciliation and streamline the process.
He also urged the public to disregard circulating social media claims that NECO had deliberately withheld payments from examiners involved in the 2024 SSCE Internal examination.
“NECO has completed the payment of the examiners allowances as at today Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, according to the payment plan of the Council.
“Also, it was discovered in the process 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 the banks 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,” he said.
He further advised that any person(s) engaged by the Council should seek clarification/explanation from it, on matters oblivious to them before resorting to the media.
“NECO wishes to reassure its esteemed examiners and other ad-hoc Staff that the Council cherishes their invaluable contributions to the effective conduct of its examination and will therefore not take their remuneration for granted,” he said.