The federal government has reversed the
decision by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to
allow candidates that applied to universities with surplus applicants
for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to be
reassigned to other universities with lower number of applicants than
their capacities.
The policy had been trailed by protests in parts of the country.The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. MacJohn Nwaobiala,
disclosed this to State House correspondents on monday after briefing
President Muhammadu Buhari of his ministry’s activities and challenges
at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
JAMB had at its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting adopted the policy.
Protest started at the University of Lagos when the institution’s
authorities announced that only candidates whose names were officially
forwarded by JAMB would be eligible to participate in this year’s
UNI LAG Post-UTME. Parents of the affected students took to the streets of Lagos with their signs with some saying " Dibu Ojerinde should be sacked ". The Buhari administration has decided to support the affected students, though the idea by JAMB wasn't a bad one but everybody deserves a chance of trying, whether they fail or pass shouldn't be JAMB's decision for them........unilagjambitos
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