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.

Abdulmutalib Shittu     Olofa Of Offa     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Al-Adaby     Gaa Olobi     CUTI     Share     Na\'Allah     Sabi     Cornelius Adebayo     Yakubu Danladi     Hijaab     Ajeigbe     Zaratu Umar     Kwara Pdp     Olawuyi     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     AGILE Programme     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Ilorin International Airport     International Vocational Centre     Lafiagi     Photo News     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Olayinka Jelili Yusuf     Alabi Lawal     Toyosi Thomas     Oyun     Kwara State Football Association     Lola Olabayo     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Smart School     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     David Adesina     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Ariyo     Kolawole Akande     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Col. Taiwo     Ifelodun     Grillo     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Oloyede     NURTW     Yusuf Arowosaye     Saba Jibril     Firdaos Amasa     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Doyin Awoyale     Sobi FM     Shola Odetundun     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Abdulwaheed Musa     Habeeb Saidu     Yusuf A. Usman     Agboola Babatunde     Idi-Ape     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Olaosebikan     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Saraki     Pakata     Folorunsho Erubu     NIPR     Obasanjo     Park     QuickWin     Noah Yusuf     Kulende-UITH     Afeyin-Olukuta     Alore     Razak Atunwa     Riskat Opakunle     School Of Nursing     Belgore     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ilesha-Baruba     MMWG     ANCOPPS     KWIRS     Harrison Osauwagboe     Buari Edun     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Issa Manzuma     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Tayo Alao     Ayodele Shittu     Kazeem Gbolagade     Aliyu U. Tilde     Teachers Specific Allowance     Ajasse-Ipo     Saidu Isa     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Salihu S. Yaru     20 Billion Bond     Orire     Justina Oha     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Kwara State Football Association     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Kwara Consultative Forum     Idowu Aremu     Iqra Books     Nigerian Correctional Service     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Nupe     Omotoso     Mutawalle     Medview Airlines     Grillo     Sola Saraki University     Yemi Osinbajo     Budo-Egba     Okanlawon Musa     Sherif Shagaya     Funke Adedoyin     Omupo     Cornelius Adebayo     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Olatomiwa Williams     Olatunde Jare     Abdulwaheed Musa     Na\'Allah     Ethical College     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Seed Technologies     Oko Erin     Mumeen Lah     Abubakar B.M     Okedare     Adebayo Salami     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Gobir Organization Foundation     Binta Abubakar Mora     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Tunji Folami     Abubakar Suleiman     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Omu Aran     Salman Suleiman     Hamid Bobboyi     YAKOOYO     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Olaosebikan     07039448763     Yakub Ali-Agan     Kwara State Polytechnic     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin