The federal government has cut the fees publishers pay to have their textbooks assessed and ranked, and ordered refunds for those who paid under the old, higher rate.
This move, according to Salisu Shehu, executive secretary at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), who announced the change in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, is designed to soften the cost of complying with the incoming National Textbook Ranking System.
The executive secretary explained that the per-page assessment fee drops from N2,000 to N1,500, while the ranking fee for each textbook title falls from N1 million to N750,000; and that both changes take effect immediately.
Shehu said the reduced charges are meant to ease the burden on publishers and authors as they go through the council’s new evaluation process. He added that publishers who had already paid the old N2,000-per-page rate would be refunded the difference, though
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