Ekiti State has emerged the state with the best results in the 2017 National Examinations Council School leaving examinations.
The state also came first in the examinations in 2016.
Governor Ayodele Fayose announced the feat while meeting with retirees at the Government House, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Idowu Adelusi.
“Our efforts in the education sector are yielding positive results, we have retained our first and leading position in this year’s NECO examinations. Last year we came first and we have done it again.
†I am promising the people of the state that we are going to maintain that leading position throughout my tenure and it will continue by the grace of God when my deputy, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka takes over from me.
†Apart from being diligent, he is the one supervising the education sector and I am proud of his commitment to duty and I am assuring you that with him in the saddle, things would get better.
“When I first came to office in 2003, the sector was in bad shape and we organised the first Education Summit and we moved from number 34 in the federation to seven and first in the South-West. I came back again to meet it in a bad state and we took some steps and here we are.
†Last year when we came first, some critics who would not see anything good in other people said we reaped from what our predecessor left. Now we have proved them wrong.
“We are the first when it comes to the motivation of teachers and assisting them with teaching aids and materials. No state celebrates teachers like we do during the annual Teachers’ Day,†he said.
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