The Senate on Tuesday, passed the National Senior Secondary Education Commission Bill, 2022.

In his presentation, Senator Akon Eyakenyi (PDP – Akwa-Ibom South), on behalf of the Committee’s Chairman, Senator Ibrahim Gaidam (APC – Yobe East), said the bill which has 33 clauses, seeks to repeal the existing Act on National Secondary Education Commission.

He stated further that the bill when assented into law, would strengthen the legislative framework for the functioning of the Senior Secondary Education sector.

Eyakenyi added that, “it also seeks to address the unfortunate abandonment of the Senior Secondary Education in Nigeria in terms of regulatory and financial intervention which hitherto has been extended to Primary and Junior Secondary Education through UBEC, and the Tertiary Education Institutions through TETFUND, NBTE, NCCE.”

“The bill also makes provision for the source of funding for the intervention and modalities for benefitting therefrom”, she said.