JAMB Deadline: 700,000 Candidates To Lose Admission Today.

The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that
over 1.6 candidates have been recommended
for admission in the 2017/2018 admission
year from various tertiary institutions .
Of that amount, only 500,000 have accepted
their admission as at the time of filling this
report.
The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian
Benjamin who disclosed this during an
interview with LEADERSHIP Friday
yesterday stated that it was far beyond
numbers recorded for other years.
Benjamin however stated that candidates were
to accept their admission before the admission
is said to be complete.
He attributed the increase to the flexibility of
the cut-off marks and also the availability of
data through the JAMB CAPS (Central
Admission Processing System) which was
introduced last year.
“We have over 500,000 accepted admission
already. By the time the 1.1 candidates accept,
we are now looking at 1.6 admission. So until
the 1.1 candidates accept, by the time they
accept, with the 500,000 that have accepted,
we will have about 1.6 million accepted,” he
said.
He explained that in CAPS, institution
forwards recommended list to JAMB desk
officer, the desk officer processes
recommended list and generates list of
provisional admissions, JAMB contacts
candidates to accept or decline admission. If
candidate accepts, admission is concluded for
candidate.
The admission process ended yesterday, by 12
midnight but the process of acceptance still
continues.
Maenwhile, the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) had expressed
optimism that tertiary institutions in Nigeria
will comply with its directive on the deadline
of admission.
The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian
Benjamin who spoke with LEADERSHIP
stated that when the directive was given,
many universities have completed the process
of their admission while some were at 95 per
cent of completion.
Benjamin added that the institutions had
reached that stage of admission process even
with the strike action by the Non-Academic
Staff Union of Universities (NASU) adding
that the strike had not affected the process.
Recall that NON teaching staff unions in the
universities under the umbrella of Joint Action
Committee, JAC, last December directed all
their branches nationwide to embark on a
strike.
The three unions are the Senior Staff
Association of Nigerian Universities,
SSANU, Non Academic Staff Union of
Universities and Associated Institutions,
NASU and National Association of Academic
Technologists, NAAT.
“Many universities have already finished their
admission. Those who have not finished are
already in their 95 per cent completion. This
they did even with the strike. So nothing will
stop them to finish the remaining five
percent,” he said.
The head of media further stated that the
deadline was given by the Board because it
didn’t want the school calendar to be
disrupted.
“Even after the strike action, the calendar will
still be there,” he said.
Recall that JAMB has given  directed to all
tertiary institutions to end their 2017
admission by January 25, 2018.