FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ASKED TO ADDRESS ONGOING ABUSE OF BOOK REVIEW EXERCISE BY STATE EDUCATION MINISTRIES


The Nigerian Publishers Association (NPA) has expressed serious concern over the high cost of Book Review Exercises being carried out by the various States’ Ministry of Education and some Federal Government agencies in charge of educational curricula nationwide. 

In a release by its President/Chairman in Council, Dr. Uchenna Cyril Anioke in Ibadan, the headquarters of  The Association,  the body frowned at the exorbitant rates book publishers have had to pay before their books could be reviewed for use in schools by all states’ Ministry of Education.

According to the President,  book review exercise is a means of evaluating and assessing the quality and standard of  the educational materials to be used by pupils and students of any State devoid of revenue generation, adding that it provides teeming students with up-to-date books. 

According to Anioke, members of the Association pay hugely for the exercise in recent years, citing that some states’ Ministry of Education see the exercise as one of the means by which they generated revenue. 

He described the situation as sad, considering the huge taxes publishers pay to the government and levies paid in the course of getting books to the end users.

The release  further  stated that in the past, publishers had paid a lump sum for the exercise but these now come as charges per title running to millions of Naira per exercise per company in each State of the Federation. 

In addition to this, is the submission of huge number of the books involved free of charge to the Ministry. 

Anioke noted that all these, adding huge review fees to the already precarious publishing business would compound publishers’ problems and affect the prices charged on books. 

Dr Anioke has, therefore,  appealed to the Honourable Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu to kindly intervene in the matter and curb the excesses of State Education Ministries and other Federal Government Educational and Curricula agencies nationwide. 

"If this is done, it will help in the provision of good quality and affordable books to the teeming Nigerian students", he said.

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