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.

Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Emir Of Ilorin     George Funsho Adebayo     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Gwanara     Salmon Babatunde Salmon     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Fawenu     Congress For National Consensus     Kwara State Governor     Usman Alkali Baba     Aminat Ahmed     Ben Duntoye     KFA     Aremu Odolaye     Saba Jibril     Asa     Oke-Kura     Peter Obi     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Kwara     Gabriel Fashanu     Baboko     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Ibrahim Jawondo     Ibrahim Abikan     ASUU     KSIRS     Adisa Logun     Elekoyangan     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Umar Ayinla Saro     Gurei     Kulende     Tayo Alao     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     AbdulRazaq AbduMajeed Alaro     UNIFEMGA     08001000100     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Idris Amosa Saidu     Onikijipa     Garba Ado Sanni     Olusegun Adeniyi     Kayode Bankole     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Jumoke Gafar     Olawuyi     Isiaka Danmeromu     HYPPADEC     Hassan Oyeleke     Saad Omo\'ya     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Amos Justus Sayo     Tuesday Assayomo     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Mubarak Oladosu     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     National Association Of Nigerian Students     United Nigeria Airline     Tunji Olawuyi     Belgore     Lithium Deposit     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Adanla-Irese     National Pilot     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Read With Me     Clara Nwachukwu     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Henry Olaosebikan     Kwara State University Of Education     Al-Adaby     Sarah Alade     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sola Saraki University     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     GAMA     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Yusuf Aiyedun     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     GRA     United Nigeria Congress Party     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Sanitation Exercise     Femi Oladiji     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Lithium     Kwara Apc     Idris Garba     Simeon Ajibola     Iyabo Adewuyi     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Oke-Odo     Afonja     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Kaiama     Segun Olawoyin     Olomu     Ohoro Of Shao     Nurudeen Muhammed     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Kayode Bankole     TETFUND     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Ebola     Tanke Road     Kanu Agabi     Yekini Adio     Jani Ibrahim     Col. Adedipe     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Saad Omo Iya     Bukola Ajikobi     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Elekoyangan     March 18     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     African Democratic Congress     Lateef Alagbonsi     Bio Ibrahim     Oba Abu     Gbemi Saraki     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Galadiman Ngeri     Ridwan Agboola     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Voices Of Tomorrow     Ahman Pategi     FOMWAN     Taofik Abdulkareem     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Issa Baba     Cassava Growers\' Association     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Sun Qing Rong     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Rasheed Jimoh     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     KWAFFA     Onilorin Of Ilorin