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  • JAMB releases results of rescheduled UTME

    THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday announced that it has released the results of the mop up examination conducted for candidates, who were rescheduled for the UTME on Saturday, May 26.

    Its Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the announcement in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja.

    The board had recently, conducted a mop up examination for over 12, 000 candidates in some of its centres across the country.

    They included those whose biometrics could not be captured during the initial period of the UTME in March, those who were yet to see their results and have not been involved in any form of malpractice.

    Others included those who were unable to print out their e-slip before the earlier examinations and those whose centres were cancelled for suspected malpractices.

    On the admission process, Benjamin said the board frowned at some institutions that have breached the constitutional guidelines for the entire process by making advertorials before the policy meeting.

    He explained that institutions must note that they were not to make any form of adverts for admissions into their schools until after the policy meeting.

    the board and to be forwarded to the appropriate body for sanction,” he said.

    He also noted that the 2018 policy meeting of the education sector was coming early to allow institutions begin an early admission.

    The board’s spokesman said Direct Entry (DE) application, which began in December 2017, would close on June 4.

    According to Benjamin, over 140,000 candidates have so far obtained the forms online.

    He said the closure became necessary in order to avail the board to plan ahead for the 2018 admission process into various institutions.

     

     

  • JAMB announces closure of Direct Entry application

    …releases results of rescheduled UTME

     

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Tuesday, announced that the Direct Entry (DE) application, which began in December 2017, would close on June 4.

    The Board’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the announcement in an interview with our reporter, in Abuja.

    According to Benjamin, over 140,000 candidates have so far obtained the forms online.

    He said that the closure became necessary in order to avail the board to plan ahead for the 2018 admission process into various institutions.

    “With the policy meeting coming up on June 26, which involves the Minister of Education and all stakeholders in the sector, the 2018 admission guidelines would be discussed and approved for the board.

    “This includes both for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and DE.

    “Therefore, candidates who are still interested and want to apply for the DE should use the window period of seven days to apply, as no extension of date will be granted.”

    Similarly, Benjamin said that the board has released the results of the mop up examination conducted for candidates, who were rescheduled for the UTME on Saturday, May 26.

    NAN recalls that the board had recently, conducted a mop up examination for over 12, 000 candidates in some of its centres across the country.

    This included those whose biometrics could not be captured during the initial period of the UTME in March, those who were yet to see their results and have not been involved in any form of malpractice.

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    Others included those who were unable to print out their e-slip before the earlier examinations and those whose centres were cancelled for suspected malpractices.

    On the admission process, Benjamin told our reporter that the board frowned at some institutions that have breached the constitutional guidelines for the entire process by making advertorials before the policy meeting.

    He explained that all institutions must note that they are not to make any form of adverts for admissions into their schools until after the policy meeting.

    According to the spokesman, this is because the meeting is the only authorised body that approves admission process for every preceding year.

    “Advertising before the policy meeting is a violation and abuse of the entire process.

    “They must recall that at the meeting, all proceedings, rules and regulations guiding the admissions are discussed and unanimously approved by all stakeholders.

    “However, a list of institutions that breached this rule are being compiled by the board and to be forwarded to the appropriate body for sanction.”

    Benjamin added that in view of the above, those who intend to make admission adverts before the slated meeting, are urged to have a rethink and halt.

    He also noted that the 2018 policy meeting of the education sector was coming early to allow institutions begin an early admission.

    NAN

  • JAMB makes N18b in two years, says registrar

    The corruption in the country came to the fore again yesterday as Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Registrar Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, reviewed the activities of the orgamisation since inception.

    According to him, JAMB remitted N52 million into the coffers of the Federal government in 40 years of organising its examinations while uder his watch, JAMB generated N18billion in two successive years.

    Last year JAMB renitted N7.8billion into the federal goernment coffers.

    Oloyede described the huge difference between the revenue generated by the board in 2017 and that of his predecessors as a reflection of the massive corruption in the system.

    Prof Oloyede spoke yesterday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, during a colloquiuim to mark Governor Rauf Aregbesola’s 61 st birthday.

    The event was organised by a socio-political group, Raufnomics Transformation of Osun.

    The JAMB registrar, a former vice chancellor of the University of Ilorin, said: “Nigeria is dominated by thieves at the helms of affairs, I mean certified thieves; let me talk about JAMB for instance, since over forty years that JAMB has been established, the total money generated before we came in is N52m (Fifty two million naira)

    “After we finished our examinations for 2017, we generated N9billion, in which I returned the total sum of N7.8 billion to the Federal Government.

    “Members of the National Assembly marveled at this feat, they wondered how I came about the figure. For this year also, I have realised over N9billion,” he said

    Speaking on the theme: “Functional education as a tool for national development and a gateway to freedom,”Oloyede described education as “ that art of acquisition and utilisation of knowledge is also an instrument in training individuals purposely to make them socially responsible.

    “Functional education must geared towards the liberation of humanity from poverty and misery.

    “All in all, education must be functional before it is adaptable.”

    He advised political leaders to build people instead of building the fence, warning: “If you destroy education, you will destroy the society.”

    Oloyede commended Aregbesola for transforming Osun, saying his infrastructural development had changed the face of the state.

    He said Aregbesola deserved to be celebrated for his vision and sense of mission.

    Digniatries, including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Orangun of Oke-Ila, Oba Adedokun Abolarin, Aragbiji of Iragbiji, Oba Abdulrasheed Olabomi and Afenifere leader Senator Ayo Fasanmi, attended the colloquim

  • JAMB set to conduct recruitment test for FRSC

    Few days after it conducted a test for applicants seeking recruitment into the Nigeria Police  Force, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board ( JAMB )  is set to conduct a similar test for the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).
     
    The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.
     
    Benjamin said that the patronage by FRSC resulted from the success the board recorded in the recent conduct of recruitment test for the police.
    “The corp marshal was at the board a few days ago, where he expressed confidence in the conduct of such third party examination by the board.
    “He solicited for a partnership with the board to conduct the corp’s examination coming up soon.
    “The examination is for three cadres – officers, marshal  inspectorate and road marshal assistant cadres,” Benjamin said.
    He advised the prospective candidates for the examination to adhere strictly to instructions to avoid unfounded speculations.
    ”The board still finds it hard to believe speculations trailing the police recruitment examination  that candidates were examined in Arabic alongside  other subjects.
    “Such rumours are not only misleading, but malicious and wicked.
    “Let me state clearly that the candidates were tested on only English Language and nothing more,”  he told NAN.
    The spokesman said that JAMB would continue to be transparent in examination conduct, adding that it would always give candidates equal opportunities.
    According to him, the board has  been equipped with human and materials resources to conduct hitch-free examinations for recruitment, promotion and other selections in the most transparent manner.
    “It is because of the confidence that organisation such as the EFCC, West African College of Surgeons and others have  in our process that we conducted similar examinations  for them in the past,” Benjamin said.

  • JAMB screens 37,062 police applicants in 156 CBT centres

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Friday screened about 37,062 applicants shortlisted nationwide for police recruitment exercise.

    The screening was done across 156 Computer Based Test Centres (CBT) and administered by JAMB.

    About 133,324 applicants applied for the vacant positions but only 6,000 successful candidates are expected to be recruited at the end of the exercise.

    Successful applicants are expected to proceed to Police training colleges, after which they would be integrated into the Nigeria Police Force.

    Head of Training, Force Headquarters, Mr Istifanus Shettima, who monitored the screening exercise in Abuja in the company of the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said JAMB was involved in the exercise to ensure transparency and credibility of the selection process.

    Shettima, who is also an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), said the target of the Police is to recruit officers with excellent standard through JAMB processes.

    “We want to maintain standard in the Nigeria Police Force that is why we brought JAMB in. We know JAMB has been very excellent in conducting exams. We want excellent people to join the police force,” he said.

    Prof. Oloyede commended the Force for enlisting the board to handle its recruitment exercise.

    He said the board was not sure if the Police Force would comply with its rules and regulations when it first approached them with the offer to screen its applicants.

    The JAMB registrar vowed that the board would continue to maintain standard while ensuring that all its screening exercises remained transparent.

    Read Also: Police Job: 37,062 candidates shortlisted for examination

    “I must congratulate the Nigerian Police Force because when they came we were not sure but they complied with all the agreement about setting the standard and ensuring that there will be no waiver at any point of the exercise.

    “We have agencies who believe in us and they patronize us, particularly those who want to do things transparently”.

    “But if you don’t want to do something that is not transparent, JAMB is not the right place to go.

    “If you know that you want to set the rules and you want the rules to be enforced, and transparently so, JAMB offers a service at a cost that you cannot get elsewhere because we are using already established public service facility.
    “All we ensure is that there must be set standard, and the set standard must be enforced,” Prof. Oloyede said.

  • ‘JAMB has outlived its usefulness’

    The Pro-chancellor/Chairman, University of Calabar Governing Council, Cross River State, Senator Nkechi Nwaogu, has called for scrapping of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination.

    Nwaogu, in an interview in Aba, the commercial nerve of Abia State, said the examination body had outlived its usefulness.

    “One of the things I would like the Federal Government to do with regard to education is to scrap JAMB. It doesn’t make sense that children sit for UTME and are also subjected to individual universities’ aptitude tests. We should go back to what it used to be many years ago: you select your university and you sit for their exams. I think that the process of going through JAMB is unnecessarily rigorous and wasteful. They cannot be making money at the detriment of education itself. For me, JAMB has outlived its usefulness.

    “We know that so many people who sit for UTME are not given admission in almost all the universities, unless they go to private universities which may be beyond their financial reach.”

    Nwaogu, a former Senate Committee on Banking and Oil and Gas chairman, called for a reduction of wastage in the sector.

    He called on Federal and state institutions of higher learning to initiate ideas that would make them self-reliant instead of depending on the government funding.

    “Universities can be made to be self-funding if the Federal Government sits up because they have a lot in the universities that can be turned into use for running universities rather than them being siphoned. If universities are 75 percent self-funded, it will give the Federal Government the opportunity to fund more universities today.

    “Federal universities should sit up to improve on their income generation to provide quality administration and management in the universities.

    She also called for curriculum review.

    “I think that university teaching structure should be reviewed. University curricula should be reviewed because a lot of courses are moribund in Nigeria.

    “We should review our curricula to meet with the advancement in the world. I think that we should also look at the remuneration for the lecturers and all that are involved in the university community,” she said.

  • 12,000 candidates to sit for JAMB’s rescheduled exam on May 26

    THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said yesterday that it had set May 26 for rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for more than 12,000 candidates across the country.

    Its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that more than 12,000 candidates are expected to sit for the mop up examinations in few of its centres across the country.

    This category of candidates, he explained, are those whose biometrics were not captured during the initial period of the UTME in March.

    He said: “It would also include those, who are yet to see their results since the end of the examinations in March till date and have not been involved in any form of malpractice.

    “It will also include those, who were unable to print out their e-slip before the earlier examinations and those whose centres were cancelled for suspected malpractices.”

    According to him, “there are centres that were cancelled because of suspicious activities but the board was unable to identify the actual culprits”.

    However, he said those, who were involved and caught in illicit acts and centres where a case of malpractice has been established against them would not partake in the rescheduled examinations.

    He advised candidates, who might have fallen into any of the categories qualified for the examination to print their e-slips from today.

    The board had earlier promised to reschedule the examinations for some candidates whose cases were exceptional, adding that candidates, who fall under such categories would be contacted before then.

     

     

     

  • JAMB sets May 26 for rescheduled examinations for over 12,000 candidates

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said that it had set May 26 for rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for more than 12, 000 candidates across the country.

    The Board’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

    According to Benjamin, more than 12, 000 candidates are expected to sit for the mop up examinations in few of its centres across the country.

    This category of candidates, he explained, are those whose biometrics were not  captured during the initial period of the UTME in March.

    He said: ““It would also include those, who are yet to see their results since the end of the examinations in March till date and have not been involved in any form of malpractice.
    “

    “It will also include those, who were unable to print out their e-slip before the earlier examinations and those whose centres were cancelled for suspected malpractices.’’

    According to him, “there are centres that were cancelled because of suspicious activities but the board was unable to identify the actual culprits.

    However, he said that those, who were involved and caught in illicit acts and centres where a case of malpractice has been established against them would not partake in the rescheduled examinations.

    He advised  candidates, who might have fallen into any of the categories qualified for the examination to print their e-slips from Monday, May 21.

    NAN recalls the board had earlier promised to reschedule the examinations for some candidates whose cases were exceptional, adding that candidates, who fall under such categories would be contacted before then. (NAN)

  • 6000 Jobs: Police warn candidates against bribery

    The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday warned candidates undergoing screening for the 6000 Police Job not offer anyone bribe.

    The police authority also said anyone caught giving or bribe will be automatically disqualified from the exercise and arrested.

    This was disclosed in Abuja  during the inspection of the exercise in the FCT Command by the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), in charge of Finance and Administration, Shuaib Gambo.

    Speaking after the inspection, he said: “The IG gave the entire DIG matching order that we should go and supervise the recruitment exercise in all the geo-political zones to make sure that they exercise is smooth and hitch-free.

    “In previous recruitment exercises, people always complain that people were recruited from local government other than the one they claimed. The complaint led to many cases of corruption. This time around, we have put in place very serious measures to ensure that nothing of such happens.

    “As you can see, the process is very thorough. You must go from one stage to another and when you qualify, you would be given a paper.  I want to appeal to members of the public and candidates  not to give anybody one dime for this recruitment because it will not help in any way.

    He added: “If you qualify, you qualify and you will be recruited. It is going to be very competitive because only 6000 will be taken and right now, we have over 133,000 that were shortlisted for this exercise.

    “So, have faith in yourself and don’t give anybody one dime. If your papers are good and you have the correct height; you don’t have to give anybody money because the person will just spend your money and end up not helping you.

    On the measures put in place to ensure that the process is devoid of any form of corrupt practice, Gambo said: “We have so many checks and balances in this process to make sure that only those who are qualified are recruited. So please don’t give any money to anybody to induce because it will not help you at all. It will even get you disqualified and even arrested. So let your paper and other qualification speak for you.

    “We have ensured that the recruitment team are well briefed and those who are in charge of the processes know what they are doing.

    “We have also lectured the men to make sure that they do not get any gratification for whatever exercise that is going on.

    “We have also incorporated other organization like the Federal character Commission,  Police Service Commission,  JAMB, and the medical team. So with all these team, it will be difficult to bribe your way through all these people”, he said

  • 6000 Police Job: 1265 candidates undergo screening in FCT

    …Successful candidates to resume training camp by June

     

    The Nigeria Police Force on Monday said 1265 candidates in the FCT are currently undergoing screening for the 6000 Police Job.

    The Police said over 133,000 candidates across the country were shortlisted for the job

    The Police also assured that there would be transparency and proper representation from the 774 local governments which would reflect federal character.

    This was disclosed in Abuja on Monday by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of Training, DIG Emmanuel Inyang during the inspection of the exercise.

    The DIG also assured that the ongoing screening would ensure that accidental discharge becomes a thing of the past in the Force.

    He said: “We are here today for the screening of the successful candidate who are willing to join the Force.

    “This screening is a screening of documents to make sure that they meet up with the qualification.  We will proceed to physical screening thereafter to make sure they have the correct height, correct chest measurement,  no flat feet, no bad dentition,  no knock-knees, no tattoo and to make sure that they are not deformed in anyway because we want to have the best for Nigerians.

    “When we finish with the physical screening, they will be subjected to aptitude test which would be conducted by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board to ensure transparency.”

    He further explained: “After the test by JAMB, we are going to invite medical personnel to conduct another medical screening. The personnel will carry out various test like X-ray, blood test and others to make sure that they are well and fit for the job.

    “When that finishes, we are going to invite another doctor who is an optometrist to make sure that their sight is unquestionable and that their vision is okay because you need to be able to see very well before you can use gun.

    “We will not stop there, for the first time; we are going to invite a psychiatric doctor who is going to do mental evaluation to make sure they are okay mentally and to make sure that they are not on drugs.

    “So a case of accidental discharge is going to be a thing of the past. We want to give Nigerians the best”, he said.

    On when the screening would be over, Inyang said: “The screening exercise should be over by early June because training will start in the month of June”.

    On the number of men to be recruited from each local government area , he said: “All the local government will be well represented.

    “Each local government will be represented so that federal character comes to place. We have representatives from the police service Commission and the Federal Character Commission to ensure that the federal character is captured.”