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.

LABTOP     Mohammed Kamaludeen     Monkey Pox     TESCOM 2025     Oke-Ero     Quarry Royal Valley     Tope Daramola     CCEPE     Okasanmi Ajayi     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Daud Adeshola     Monthly Sanitation     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     PharmAccess Foundation     Rihanat Ajia     RTEAN     Kubra Kazum     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     John Obuh     Yusuf Ali     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Salihu Jibril Garbi     National Pilot     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Salman Suleiman     Muhammed Aliyu     Clara Nwachukwu     CLAY POT     CACOVID     Stephen Fasakin     Col. Adedipe     Gani Saadu     Christopher Odetunde     Student Learning Support Helpline     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Abubakar Suleiman     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Albert Ogunsola     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Arik     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     ER-KANG Mining     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Biliaminu Aliu     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Kwara Volleyball Association     Dankaka     Baba Issa Awoye     Olatunde Oyeyiola     Bilikis Oladimeji     Yekini Adio     Nagode     Elese Of Igbaja     Offa     The Herald     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     Sabi     Femi Oladiji     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Yoonus Lawal     Kwara State Polytechnic     Olupako     Kwara State Governor     Bursary     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Roheemat Hammed     Yomi Ogunsola     Abubakar Usman Jos     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Age AbdulKareem     Shuaibu Yaman Abdullahi     Towoju     Pakata Patriots     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Shuaib Jawondo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Kayode Issa     Aminat Omodara     Basit Olatunji     Afetu Of Alabe     Gobirawa     Kolo     Tosho Yaqub     Sunday Otokiti     Gbemi Saraki     Ijagbo Health Centre     BECE     Lola Olabayo     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Olatinwo     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Roheemat Hammed     Shehu Adaramaja     Kwara State Football Association     Iyeru Grammar School     Lanre Badmas     Ajibike Katibi     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Amosa     Afeyin-Olukuta     Quareeb     Ibrahim Taiwo Road     Ijagbo     Ayobami Akanbi     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Stephen Fasakin     Shettima     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Elesie Of Esie     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Rafiu Ajakaye     SSUCOEN     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     CBT     Bolaji Nagode     Garba Ado Sanni     Offa Descendants Union     Ronke Adeyemi     COEASU     Zara Umar     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Ayinke Saka     Busari Alabi Alausa     Eleyele     ITEM 7     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Ibrahim Gambari     Shururat Olatinwo     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Firdaos Amasa     Yaru     Umar Ahmed Gunu     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Simon Sayomi     IsDB     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Taofeek Ibraheem     Oluranti Idowu     Rex Olawoye     2023 Elections     Salman Suleiman     Wasiu Odewale     TVC Female National Debate     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Saadu Yusuf     Awili Pedro     Abdulwahab Ololele