No chance of reducing UTME fee - JAMB Registrar

Date: 2017-10-16

The Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede said the board may not review downward the fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 2018.

Oloyede stated this at the weekend in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.

He said the Board had initially thought of reducing the fee but unwholesome activities of the so-called poor parents in 2017 UTME, no longer make the reduction attractive as it was at the beginning.

Prof Oloyede explained that many arrested during the last UTME had collected huge amount of money from the so-called poor parents while seeking unholy support.

"It's one of the options but what's mitigating against that I'm not convinced and I don't think the Board too is convinced that the so-called poor people are genuinely poor.

"Our findings have revealed that what people spent in corrupting the society, what parents paid for seeking unholy support and what parents are prepared to part with looking for how to cut corners show that if actually they are poor they will not be able to secure the resources they are wasting."

On the controversies trailing the huge amount return to the federal government coffer by JAMB this year, Oloyede said JAMB is not a wasteful agency and whatever comes in would be appropriately remitted to the government.

He promised that the Board would be strengthened to make it a self-sustaining one as obtainable across the world.

"I am not aware of any agency with the nature of JAMB in the world that is being funded by government. But in Nigeria, because, we are used to something that is not proper and to get us out of what's improper will even be strange."

The Registrar however pledged that the Board would improve on its activities in the coming years, calling on all stakeholders in the education sector to be up and doing and be honest in the discharge of their responsibilities.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Al-Adaby     Umar Danladi Shero     Kazeem Gbolagade     Olaitan Buraimoh     Sobi     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Age AbdulKareem     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Ileloke     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Oniye     Nnazua     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Bayo Ojo     Maryam Ado Bayero     KwaraLearn     Amina El-Imam     Tosin Saraki     Adama Isa     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Ahmad Ali     Peter Amogbonjaye     Charles Ibitoye     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Hijaab     Tanke Flyover Bridge     UITH     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Kaosarah Adeyi     Ola Falade     Atiku     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Minimum Wage     Bukola Saraki     Elerinjare     Baruten     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Owode Market     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Orire     Isaac Gbenle     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Olam Food Ingredients     08001000100     Inside Kwara     Innocent Okoye     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Gbugbu International Market     Ojuekun Sarumi     Oba Abdulraheem     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Kolawole Bashirat     Okin Biscuits     Quarry Royal Valley     Yusuf Abubakar     Otoge     Freshvine Nigeria Limited     Shehu Jimoh     Bashir Adigun     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Afolayan     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Iyaloja-General     Ubandoma     Memunat Monsuma     Bashiru Makama     Amuda Bembe     Dele Belgore     Olatunji Moronfoye     Issa Baba     Doyin Agbamu    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oja-Oba     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Tsaragi/Share     Rachael Obisesan     Solomon Edojah     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Dan Iya     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Olabanji Orilonishe     High Court     AGILE Programme     Kanu Agabi     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Maryam A. Garuba     Babaloja-General     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Smart School     Lateef Fagbemi     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     First Lady     Alagbado     Hussein Olokooba     Okin Malt     Folashade Omoniyi     Matthew Babaoye     Saka Onimago     Galadiman Ngeri     International Aviation College     Zainab Abass     Kayode Yusuf     Timothy Akangbe     IHS     Yaman     Olaitan Adefila     Yahaya Muhammad     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Ubandawaki     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Fatai Olodo     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Abatemi-Usman     Bamidele Aluko     Elesie Of Esie     Mogaji Aare     Alapado     CLAY POT     Ayo Adeyemi     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     IF-K     Sarakite     Umar Danladi Shero     Saba Jibril     Ojuekun     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Ishaq Oloyede     Jimba Babatunde     Yusuf A. Usman     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Yusuf Badmus     Congress For National Consensus     Nupe     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Roseline Oni Aremu     Joseph Offorjama     Kwara 2019     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Ghali Alaaya     Abdulwaheed Musa     Ronke Adeyemi