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  • 2021 UTME: Fate Of Over 600,000 Eligible Candidates Hanging In Balance

    2021 UTME: Fate Of Over 600,000 Eligible Candidates Hanging In Balance

    Nigerian Tribune

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all tertiary institutions in the country to expedite action on the completion of the 2021 admission exercise. 

    This came as parents and some stakeholders expressed concern over delayed admissions in which case the fate of over 600,000 eligible candidates who participated in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) is hanging in the balance. 

    JAMB revealed that over 1.4 million candidates registered for both the 2021 UTME and Direct Entry, out of which only about 600,000 possessed the requisite qualifications to be admitted based on available records with the Board. 

    Nigerian Tribune checks revealed that the majority of tertiary institutions, especially public universities, are still processing their 2020 admissions, which were affected by the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last year. 

    Checks at University of Abuja, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, and others further confirmed that some of them are yet to conclude the 2020 admissions.

    The ASUU strike that paralysed academic activities in public universities lasted about nine months coupled with the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 outbreak, majority of tertiary institutions in the country were unable to process admissions for 2020 academic session until late last year. 

    JAMB also confirmed that it had recorded only a negligible number of fully-processed admissions on the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS). 

    The Board in its weekly Bulletin obtained on Monday in Abuja said, “All tertiary institutions in the country have been called upon to expedite action on the completion of the 2021 admission exercise. 

    “This call became necessary following the negligible number of fully-processed admissions on the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) out of the teeming population of candidates with requisite qualifications yearning for admission. 

    “The board is aware of numerous challenges that have impacted the academic calendars of tertiary institutions as well as the smooth processing of the admission requests but urged them to devise acceptable means of closing the gap and complete the 2021 admission exercise on schedule.” 

    Director of Admissions, Mr Mohammed Babaji Ahmed, while briefing some select institutional desk officers, implored them to interact with their respective institutions to ensure that even if they are not ready for students to resume, they could conduct such admissions prior to their respective chosen resumption dates to enable their candidates to know their fate. 

    He also noted that the board is on the 2022 UTME application documents, hence the need for desk officers to be proactive. 

    He expressed the resolve of the board to prevent candidates from incurring unnecessary expenses through buying new e-pins that they may not use if they are eventually admitted. 

    The director decried the situation whereby only about 100,000 candidates have been processed out of the over 600,000 eligible candidates. 

    Meanwhile, a parent, Mr Johnson Ende, said he was prepared to buy another JAMB application form for both his son and daughter as soon as they are on sale to avoid the repeat of what happened to his first daughter who was unable to secure admission with her 2020 UTME result while she did not register for the 2021 UTME. 

    He lamented that the daughter had been forced to spend extra two years at home while appealing to the Federal Government and ASUU to resolve their differences causing distortion of academic calendar.

  • You have no right to embark on strike, FG Tells ASUU, Insists Demands have been ‘responded to’

    You have no right to embark on strike, FG Tells ASUU, Insists Demands have been ‘responded to’

    The Federal Ministry of Education through the Federal Government has said that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have no justification to embarking on another round of strike action, claiming that it has responded to all the demands of the lecturers within the limit of resources available.

    The Director, Press and Public Relations, in the ministry , Ben Bem-Goong, disclosed this while speaking with Tribune Online in Abuja, in reaction to strike threats credited to the National President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke.

    Reacting, the spokesperson of the Ministry said strike was unnecessary as it has done more harm than good to the University system.

    He noted that a full academic calendar was lost to the last nine-month industrial action by ASUU, which most universities are struggling on how to remedy.

    He said: “I think every Nigerian except ASUU has agreed that we should look at other options of dealing with the issues the Union has raised over the decades.

    “We have lost full academic session to strike; every university has lost that. ASUU itself should think outside the box. If you are doing the same thing every year and it’s not giving you expected result, you should think of doing it differently.

    “For 20 years, 2 decades we are inundated with strikes, so, it is my considered opinion that ASUU should look beyond strike,” he said.

    He lamented that ASUU has been using the earned allowance, he simply described as overtime allowance to derail the university system with frequent strike action.

    He said earned allowances as demanded by ASUU, is simplify overtime allowance that had been stopped in the regular civil service.

    “It is actually overtime allowance because the lecturers are saying we have worked some extra loads other than our normal schedules.

    “Yes, in the regular civil service, we have stopped overtime allowances but in the academics earned allowance it is still a topical issue.

    “But if you ask me, ASUU is perpetrating the issue of earned allowance to continue to derail the education sector, especially at the University level.

    “The truth is that extant rules in academics dictate that Universities should employ the best of their hands in every department every session.

    “Every department retains that student that made First Class and if you continue to go with that over time or in no time at all, you would have taken out the issue of one lecturer working in so many institutions and saying, I have done overtime.

    “Regular lecturers would have been available but the universities have deliberately refused to implement that, retaining the best of their brains in every department aimed at ensuring that they have sufficient manpower,” he said.

    Recall that some section of the media had reported Mr Osodeke as saying that the N30bn Revitalisation Fund and N22.5bn Earned Academic Allowance to the tune of N52.5bn released by the Federal Government was not enough to deal with the challenges facing the university system.

    Mr Osedeke was further quoted to have said that there was a possibility that the union would still go on strike, unless the government addressed its demands, including the 2009 agreement.

  • 2021 UTME: Jamb Blacklists 25 CBT Centres in Benue, Lagos Others Over Poor Performance (See Full List)

    2021 UTME: Jamb Blacklists 25 CBT Centres in Benue, Lagos Others Over Poor Performance (See Full List)

    Not fewer than twenty-five Computer Based Centres, CBT, have been blacklisted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, following their alleged poor performance on Saturday when the conduct of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination commenced nationwide.

    Spokesman of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said: “The following centres whose performance fell below the tolerable limit of the JAMB during the conduct of the 2021 UTME on Saturday, June 19, 2021 are hereby delisted.”

    He said candidates posted to any of the affected centres were required to await further directives by checking their profile, email addresses and SMS on their registered phone for a new date.

    The 25 delisted CBT centres are: Benue State: Harry Pass Polytechnic CBT Centre, off Gboko Ameladu Road, along Ortese Market after CDM Academy, Gboko, Benue State and Delta State: Izisco Obos Institute of Maritime Studies and Technology, 2 Igbesivwe Street, off Okere-Ugborikoko Road, Warri, Delta State.

    The affected three centres in Edo State, are Oseni Elamah ICT Institute, 39, Poly Road, Auchi, Edo State; Givitec CBT Centre, 192, Murtala Mohammed Way, By Ekiosa Market, Benin- City, Edo State and Kings Polytechnic, Ubiaja, Edo State.

    The following were also affected, Gef Systems Ltd, Public Service Institute of Nigeria, (PSIN) Dutse Junction, Kubwa Express Way, Abuja, Oru East CBT Centre (Foe ICT) Oru East LGA Headquarters Omuma, in Imo State; Bethel Baptist High School, Km 6 Kachia Road, Marmara Damishi, Kujama, Kaduna State; Zabib College No 11 Umar Abdullahi Tsauri Road, Unguwar Dosa, Kaduna, and St. Albert Institute, Fadan-Kagoma, Kafanchan, in Kaduna State.

    Others are: Massino Computer CBT, 35 Assembly Hall Road, By Limca B/Stop, Itoga Badagry, Lagos State; IP Soft Technologies Ltd.36, Mobil Road Beside Ashanti Barracks Apapa, Lagos State; Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology Adminstration. 7th Ave. Oppositr K Close, Alakiga B/Stop Festac Town Lagos State; Sweet Valley Educational Services, Mike Anison Close, off Ayeni Str, 2nd Junction, Governor’s Road, Ikotun, Lagos State; Certified Institution of Shipping, CISN B/Stop, Near Magbon Badagry, Lagos and Al-Miyzan Schools CBT Centre, Al-Miyzan Close, Adams Estate, Ikotun, all in Lagos State.

    The Board also removed from the approved list, the following CBT Centres, Nasarawa State Aunty Alice Schools, 48 Aunty Alice School Road, Mararaba, Karu LGA, Nasarawa State; The Federal Polytechnic, along Ondo-Ipetu, Ijesha Road, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State; King Emmanuel College ICT Centre, 34-40 King Emmanuel Street, Showboy Rd, Ore, Ondo State; Oduduwa University, Opposite Ife-Ibadan Expressway Roundabout, Ipetumodu, Osun State and Federal College of Education (Special), E-Library, Centre 1, Oyo, Oyo State.

    Also blacklisted are: St Augustine’s Academy, Solomon Lar Way, Before Saturday Market Junction, Langtang, Plateau State; Skolak Resources Ltd, BZ 3 Sardauna Crescent Off Junction Road, Kaduna, Kaduna State and Government Secondary School Tundun Wada, Area 10, Garki, Abuja.

  • Jamb Releases Fresh Update On Mock Exam

    Jamb Releases Fresh Update On Mock Exam

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, says that mock examination slips for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, can now be printed out in preparation for the exercise.

    JAMB made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja.

    “Candidates who had registered for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and indicated interest to sit for the optional mock examination are to print their mock notification slips from Sunday, May 9.

    “This is in preparation for the mock examination scheduled for Thursday, May 20.

    “The optional mock notification slips can be printed from anywhere candidates find to be convenient, provided they have access to the internet.

    “Candidates are to visit https://www.jamb.gov.ng then click on e-facility and print their slips.”

    The board added that the slip contained candidates’ details such as registration number and the centre to which they are to sit for the examination within their chosen examination town.

    The slip, it further said, also contained the expected time the candidates were to be at the centre.

    It further urged candidates to study the contents of the slip after printing it out in order to know the location of their examination centres on time, to avoid confusion on the scheduled date of the exercise.

    JAMB also said that a total of 845,517 candidates have so far registered for the 2021 UTME and a total of 38,886 candidates have registered for Direct Entry (DE) as of Sunday, May 9.

    NAN reports that the registration commenced on April 8, to end on May 15, while the examination is scheduled to commence from June 5 to June 19.

    In a similar development, the board has cautioned the public against falling victims to scammers whom it said have continued to use its name to commit illicit acts.

    The board said that its attention had been drawn to ” the activities of criminal elements who claim to be recruiting invigilators on behalf of the Board for the 2021 UTME/DE.

    “They do this while also requesting the payment of acceptance fee of N5,000 payable to the syndicates.

    “The board wish to state unequivocally, that it is not recruiting any invigilator or any official in that capacity for that matter.

    The board added that it had in place a transparent and fool proof process of recruiting ad-hoc staff or any other officials it needed to make progress.

    JAMB said it has become necessary to notify the public on the development so that people were not scammed and parted with their hard-earned resources on the premise of securing non-existing jobs with the board.

    “To ensure that the public is not misled, the Board has provided several platforms for the public to verify any information purported to have been released by it, to save the public from being misled.”

    The board also stated that it has commenced series of meetings with its critical stakeholders to consolidate on its preparations for the 2021 UTME/DE exercise.

    NAN