FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LIFTS BAN ON POST-UTME EXAMS
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
LIFTS BAN ON POST-UTME EXAMS
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, urged Nigerian universities not to
impose huge financial burdens on parents as he asked them to make the screening
fees for Post UTME affordable - Adamu further disclosed that the federal
government is now wiser about the situation, after taking time to study what
was going on in the universities - The minister also praised the management of
JAMB for remitting a huge sum of money to the coffers of the federal government
in just one year The ban on the controversial post-Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examinations (post-UTME) usually organized by universities in the
country, has been lifted by the federal government, The Point reports. It was gathers that the new development was made
public by Malam Adamu Adamu, the minister of education.
Femi Adesina After ordering that the exams be scrapped last year, the
minister has declared that universities can now organize the post-UTME exams as
a pre-condition for students hoping to get admitted into the various higher
institutions in the country. However, Adamu urged the universities not to
impose huge financial burdens on parents, by making the screening fees
affordable. He stated: “We are going to allow universities to organize
post-UTME if they want. “We have asked them not to impose huge financial burden
on the parents. “The burden should not be more than what they can bear.” Adamu
disclosed that the federal government is “now wiser” about the situation, after
taking time to study what was going on in the universities. He further
disclosed that N5 billion had been remitted to the coffers of the Federal
Government by the management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), which is the largest remittance made by the board in the last 40 years.
He expressed confidence in the exams conducted by the board. In his words:
“Since JAMB was established more than 40 years ago, the total amount it has
given government was N200 million; but in one year, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has
remitted N5 billion to government. “The new JAMB registrar has been correcting
many anomalies in the board. Within a year, he has been able to stop all the
untold things that were happening there.”
Recall that it was previously
reported that the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (post-UTME)
conducted for candidates seeking admission into higher institution was scrapped
by the Federal Government. The Federal Government explained that all tertiary
institutions were at liberty to conduct screening for candidates seeking admission
into any school.