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.

Jaiz Bank     Towoju     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Abdulhakeem Amao     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Hamid Bobboyi     Mumeen Lah     Aro Yahaya     Mustapha Olanipekun     Olatunde Jare     Ajia-Bako     Diagnostic Centre     Turaki Of Ilorin     Sarah Jubril     Baakini     Damilola Yusuf     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Elese Of Igbaja     Code Of Conduct     Oke-Ode     Adeniyi Ojo     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     T And K FOODS     Saka Abimbola Isau     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Onilu     Falokun-Oja     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Sa\'adu Gambari     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Kwara Poly     Sa\'ad Alanamu     John Olobayo     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Ilesha-Baruba     Gobir Organization Foundation     CBT     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Baba Isale     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Ilorin South Constituency     Laboratory-to-Product     Hijaab     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Plat Technologies     Abdulmajeed Abdullahi     Lanre Aremu     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Ishaq Salman     Valsolar     Otoge     Omotosho     Adebara     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Kayode Laro     Metro Park     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Mustapha Akanbi     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Kola Ologbondiyan     Mohammed Ghali Alaaya     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Dauda Adesola     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Sheriff Shagaya     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Moses Adekanye     Maryam A. Garuba     Kola Bukoye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Tafida     Ajakaye     Kuliyan Geri     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Ope Saraki     Hamidu Olowo     Dumagi     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Barakat Community Secondary School     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Wahab Isa     Abdulkareem Alabi     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Buhari     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport     Harmony Holdings     Amuda Musbau     First Lady     Henry Olaosebikan     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Kawu Baraje     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Moshood Mustapha     Elerinjare-Ibobo     YAKOOYO     Issa Oloruntogun     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Idowu Laro     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Amusa Bello     Lucky Omoluwa     Chartered Institute Of Personnel Management Of Nigeria     Kwara University Of Education     Saba Jibril     Toyin Abdullahi     Azeez Salawu     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Imam Gambari     Shade Omoniyi     KWASSIP     Tunji Moronfoye     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Sulyman Buhari     Lanre Issa Onilu     Tinubu     Towoju     SUBEB     Egbewole     Fatimoh Lawal     Isaac Gbenle     Sobi FM     Tayo Awodiji     International Aviation College     Oni Adebayo     Danhawa     Waheed Ibrahim     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     EndSARS     Ado Bayero     Turaki Of Ilorin     Omu-aran     Tsaragi-Share     Halimat Yusuf     Doyin Awoyale     Olusola Saraki     11th Galadima     Rihanat Ajia     Vasolar Consultoria     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Onilorin Of Ilorin