Warned...

The Jigawa Government has warned secondary school candidates preparing for the 2017 West African and National Examinations against truancy.

Alhaji Abdullahi Yunusa, the Director-General, State Education Inspectorate Monitoring Unit, gave the warning in an interview in Dutse on Tuesday.

Yunusa noted that with dismay that over 80 per cent of the candidates had stopped attending classes after being registered for the two examinations by the state government.

He said candidates in the habit of playing truancy after a lot of money had been spent to register them would not be allowed to sit for the two examinations.

“I am sure more than N150 million was spent to register them in both NECO and WAEC.

“So, how could the government spend such amount of money for the registration of candidates in order to nurture them to become good citizens and they could not be punctual to their classes.

“I went round to monitor teaching and learning in almost all the schools in some zones.

“And in the process of counting the number of attendance among the students, we discovered that out of the class of 110 or 80, you find that only between 20 and 30 were attending classes.’’