The Senate on Wednesday in Abuja passed two bills to establish a Federal University in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT and another one in Rivers State.
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By Olawale Ajimotokan
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has revealed that junior secondary school students in the territory who sat for the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) had a 76.8 per cent success rate.
The acting Director, Administration and Finance of the FCT Education Secretariat, Mallam Leramoh Abdul Razak disclosed this at the secretariat’s 2020 annual media luncheon.
BECE is the main examination to qualify students for admission into secondary and vocational schools in Nigeria.
Abdul Razak said the FCT Education Resource Centre, which released the results, indicated that out of the 59,938 candidates that sat for the examination, 46,075 passed at six credits, including English Language and Mathematics.