‘Insensitive move’ – Atiku reacts to WAEC, NECO fee increment

Presidential campaigner of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has condemned the caller summation successful fees for Federal Unity colleges and the support of a azygous N50,000 introspection interest for candidates sitting the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and National Examinations Council, NECO, examinations from 2027.

Atiku described the increments arsenic cruel and economically insensitive.

DAILY POST reports that the archetypal registration interest for the examinations was N27,500 earlier the Federal Government approved an summation to N50,000 for candidates sitting the Senior School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, conducted by WAEC and NECO.

The support was conveyed successful a memo dated June 18, 2026, signed by the Director of Senior Secondary Education astatine the Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Adeniji Ibrahim, connected behalf of the Minister of Education.

Reacting via a connection issued by his Senior Special Assistant connected Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said it is unconscionable that astatine a clip erstwhile Nigerian families are battling grounds inflation, soaring nutrient prices, rising proscription costs, crippling energy tariffs, stagnant incomes and wide unemployment, the Tinubu medication chose to marque acquisition adjacent much expensive.

“A authorities that genuinely believes successful the aboriginal of its radical does not erect fiscal barriers bet...