As public outrage continue to trail the mass failure in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the President’s Schools Debate Nigeria has said its activities would promote a reading culture and academic excellence among Nigerian students.
PSDN Chairman, Usman Mohammed, stated this at a press conference on Friday in Abuja.
Mohammed announced that the 24th edition of democracy debate, will hold in July this year with all public primary and secondary schools in the country participating from the local government level.
He pointed out that the national debate would also promote harmony and inter-regional unity amongst the youth as well as advance democratic values at an early age.
With over 70 percent of candidates who sat for the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scoring less than 200 out of 400 obtainable scores, some analysts have attributed the cause on the dying reading culture among young ones.
Speaking at the…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
