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President Muhammadu Buhari has reduced the cost of forms for some terminal examinations like the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination , organised by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board , the Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Examination Council , as well as the Basic Education Certificate Examination .

This was revealed by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu , after the Federal Executive Council meeting in State House, Abuja .

According to Tolu Ogunlesi, the Head of Digital Communications for President Buhari , on his Twitter handle , @ toluogunlesi , who shared the news, the reduction will take effect from January 2019 .

He tweeted, “ President Buhari has approved the reduction in the cost of Forms for JAMB UTME , NECO SSCE and the Basic Education Certificate Examination . With effect from January 2019 , the cost of JAMB UTME Form will drop from N 5 , 000 to N3 , 500 . NECO will drop from N11 , 350 to N9 , 850 .

“ Minister of Education Adamu Adamu announced this just now at today ’ s

# FECBrief . He said President Buhari directed the Ministry to look into the reduction following the significant improvement in revenues being remitted to the Treasury by the Education Agencies.

“ The Exam Agencies are not meant to be revenue generating bodies , they’ re only supposed to cover costs / operating expenses. The sharp increase in remittances by JAMB ( from less than N60 m in 2010 – 2016 to > N 15 BILLION in 2017 / 18 ) have shown that the fees being charged could be reduced . ”