No fewer than 76,855 candidates yesterday sat for the 2021 National Common Entrance Examination for admission into the 110 Unity Colleges in the country.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, stated this while monitoring the examination at Federal Science and Technical College, Orozo, Government Secondary School, Karu, and Federal Government Boys College, Apo, all in Abuja.
He noted that government had planned to increase the carrying capacity of the Unity Schools to 30,000 to accommodate new stream of schools and more candidates who are desirous of attending the colleges. Represented by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Arc Sonny Echono, the minister said the carrying was increased to about 26,000 last year which did not include the six new technical colleges and the plan to establish five more colleges in the country to bring the number of Unity Colleges to 115.
He said the government was concerned about persistent attacks on schools and abduction of students and had taken steps to beef up security around the colleges while appealing to parents to allow their children enrol for the colleges established to foster national integration and cohesion.“We know that there are security challenges across the federation but we are working assiduously to address that.
“So, the federal schools are actually more secure than most others. On the strength of that we want parents to allow their children enrol for the schools; let them know this country and meet other people,” he said.
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