JAMB goes tough on admission seekers, to make O-level results compulsory before admission

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- Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to enforce a new rule before offering admission to students

- JAMB says it would require the records of Ordinary and Advanced Level results of candidates

- The new rule would take effect from this year's admission

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said before offering any student admission it would demand for the records of Ordinary and Advanced Level results of candidates recommended by tertiary institutions.

Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB said this during this year’s meeting on admissions exercise/processes for Innovative Enterprise Institutions in Abuja on Tuesday, September 26.

”From this year now, we are demanding records of the O levels of the candidates you are admitting and that is for the first time,”

“When you recommend a person for admission we want to see what qualification he or she possesses not just you telling me that he or she scored 300 in UTME. What of the real qualification?” Oloyede said.

The registrar further said the board would stop the ”regularisation of all forms of illegal admissions conducted by tertiary institutions from this year.”

He said: "Illegal admission in terms of people not even taking the unified tertiary matriculation examination, UTME at all not to talk of scoring zero. Illegal admission by even admitting people who do not have the requisite ordinary level (O level) because before now JAMB does not have the record of their O level (results).”

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that JAMB was alleged to have remitted only about N15 million to the federal government after making at least N30.726 billion in five years.

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Daily Trust findings revealed that the amount was generated from the various registration fees for candidates who sat for JAMB’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) from 2011 to 2015.

Over seven million candidates, who sat for the UMTE within the five-year period, paid between N4, 000 and N4, 600 each for registration.

Watch this NAIJ.com TV Video of applicants lamenting bitterly over JAMB registration hassles: