21,193 students in Lagos pass WASCE, says Fashola

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, on Saturday said 21,193 out of the 51,604 students in the state public schools, who sat for the 2013 May/June WAEC, had credits in five subjects.



Fashola revealed this in Ikeja while speaking at a programme to commemorate the 2,300 days of his administration.

Fashola said that the five subjects included English Language and Mathematics.

He said the performance translated into 41.06 per cent pass rate, adding that it was an improvement on the 39 per cent recorded in 2012.

Fashola said that the performance showed that the various government interventions in education, especially the “Secondary School EKO Project, paid off.”

“If one recalls that we started with a pass rate of seven per cent in 2007,one will appreciate how far we have come, to now record an over 41 per cent pass rate.

“Similarly, the results of our 2013 JSS placement examination showed that more pupils are getting into our secondary schools as 95,255 candidates passed.

“This translates into 96 per cent pass rate and the number of candidates who passed almost doubles the 49,316 that we had in 2012.

Sources: PM News (ABRIEFED)

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