He emphasised the need for council to continue to embark on initiatives that would enhance the quality of their service delivery to candidates and other stakeholders.
Okowa who was represented by Mr Patrick Ukah, Secretary to the State Government, assured that the state on its part, will continue to support any initiative embarked upon by WAEC.
He said that the state would also strive in providing an enabling environment for pupils and students in primary and secondary schools to excel both in character and in learning.
Govenor Okowa also urged parents and guardians to participate actively in the educational development of their children and wards.
He said there was need to stem the tide of examination malpractice which has been threatening the entire foundation of our education sector.
He commend the organisation for its 70 years of exceptional service to the African Child and its dedication to the development of education in the sub-region.According to him, One of the visions of my administration was to improve the deteriorating standard of education in the state, by turning it into a hub for learning, creating globally competitive model learning centrex.
He noted that education remain the best legacy to bequeath to the children and youth of Delta State, as well as the only veritable tool of socio-economic development of this state.
Govenor Okowa said that the education sector in the state has experienced a robust improvement in the areas of funding, empowerment of teachers, and equipping of learning institutions/facilities.
He added that the Tertiary Institution Entrepreneur Programme (TEP) is another initiative designed to produce work-ready and self-employed graduates, to mitigate graduate unemployment significantly.
Okowa said that through these and other job and wealth creation programmes for the youth, his administration had been able to create over 100,000 direct jobs and over 1,000,000 indirect jobs.
While emphasizing that, apart from building and renovating structures too in state-owned tertiary institutions, there has been a deliberate effort on my part to encourage Deltans to acquire higher education through scholarship schemes.
Mr Patrick Areghan, WAEC’s Head of National Office (HNO) in his opening remarks said that the intention to hold the meeting of the NNC in Delta State was made at the 59th meeting of the committee in Ibadan, Oyo State
He said that it is a usual practice since inception to hold the meeting once in a year in rotation among the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He assured that the council which had grown in leaps and bounds in the past 70 years, would continue to deliver its mandate of being a world class test body, adding value to the educational goals of its stakeholders.
The Chairman, of the NNC, Mrs Binta Abdulkadir said that the council, being a technologically driven examination body, had continued to evolve in this regard.
She said WAEC had ensured that its services were easily accessible to all, especially as it had perfected its Electronic Certificate Management System (e-CERTMAN), an on-line portal, deployed to enable private candidates request for their certificates online.
According to Abdulkadir, the council’s national office has leveraged on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve its service delivery to tackle the menace of examination malpractice.
acording to jim, This will assist in the development of sound education, ensure educational standards are maintained as well as give the people of West Africa a vision of the great potentials which lie beyond examinations, among other benefits.
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