By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu
Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all higher institutions to strictly adhere to the advisory it had issued to them regarding details of candidates who fall within the
category of undisclosed and illegal
institutional admissions.
A statement from JAMB’s Head, Media and Protocol Dr Fabian Benjamin, made available to Blueorint Monday said
the move was to ensure that whatever is uploaded by
the institutions is correct to facilitate the timely release
of students’ retroactive letters of admission.
“The series of mistakes found on the less than 5 per cent of the uploaded lists by various iinstitutions
has come to the attention of the board. This, undoubtedly, would hamper the speedy
processing of the lists.
“For the purpose of emphasis, the board had published a step-by-step process of how to conduct the condonement and had forwarded same to the various institutions, in addition to advertising in three national dailies and the National Television Authority (NTA), as well as on the board’s website,” Dr Benjamin said.
The board, therefore, urged all affected
institutions to undertake a proper and timely upload of the list of candidates along with their particulars as may be required on the template, Benjamin added.
Also, JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq
Oloyede, while monitoring the 2022
UTME/DE registration in Kano, disclosed that over 1.5 million candidates had so far
registered for the exercise.
Prof. Oloyede visited a number of JAMB approved CBT centres in Kano state, Kabuga satellite town, Kano, and
the JAMB PTC, zonal office.
Oloyede lamented the low turnout of candidates in the various centres visited and enjoined pospective candidates to come out and register, reiterating that the board would not extend the registration beyond March 26.
The registrar decried the situation
whereby candidates who refused to
come out to register in the meantime,
would turn around to swamp the
registration centres at the close of registration to demand extension of the exercise.
While addressing the journalists at the
board’s zonal office, Kano, Oloyede
explained that it was practically
impossible for the board to contemplate extending the registration period
because of the intense negotiations involved in arriving at the current arrangements”.