By Maryam Abeeb
The National Directorate of Employment has organised free supplementary classes for 300 students retaking Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Senior School Certificate Examinations in Gombe State, with about 36 graduates to serve as coaches.
Speaking during the commencement of the coaching scheme in Kumo, Director-General of NDE, Abubakar Fikpo, who was represented by the State Coordinator, Jediel Stephen, said the initiative was under the Directorate’s special public works programme.
He said that the classes were meant to encourage students to improve their grades and secure admission into tertiary institutions, adding that facilitators would be paid N20,000 per month totalling N60,000 for the three months.
According to him, the Graduate Coaching Scheme is designed to address the increasing number of school leavers. He added that 300 beneficiaries were selected across three senatorial districts following their educational backgrounds, “100 each across three senatorial districts.”
Fikpo said, “So that they can meet the university requirements for admission. This strategy is intended to revisit the revision of past question papers of WAEC, GCE, NECO and Jamb.”
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