JAMB to register two
million for UTME
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede has
said no fewer than 200 million candidates
are expected to register for this year’s
Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examinations (UTME).
Prof Oloyede declared that the
examination body returned N7.8 billion to
the Federal Government coffers from the
proceeds of examination forms sold in
2017.
He stated that the fund was sourced from
the N12billion income made during the
year.
He said the board had effected changes in
the process and procedure for registration
and conduct of examination for candidates
to curb hitherto malpractices in the
processes.
The JAMB boss told reporters at the
weekend in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.
He said contrary to the insinuation that the
board increased the examination fee,
which enabled the milestone, the JAMB
boss said the agency rather made some
reductions in the fee payable for the
examination.
He said the examination board also
significantly reduced the amount paid for
exam by foreign applicants, maintaining
that it was aimed at encouraging huge
number of them.
Oloyede informed that the agency
introduced Central Admission Processing
System (CAPS) in the bid to address the
imbalance observed in the admission
process for the applicants.
He noted that with the introduction of the
system, the process of admission into
higher institutions of learning in the
country has become more transparent,
saying there was no need for any
institution to come to the Headquarters of
the board for certain rectitude.
Oloyede, a former Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Ilorin, said the system
involved by the agency is making 90
percent of admission to be based on merit.
He also stated that the board had
expanded its facilities by spending
N1billion last year, adding that 15,000
centres would be created for prospective
UTME candidates this year.
On his stewardship, he said: “It has been
very tough but it has also been very
rewarding. When we started in 2015 we
did not realize we were going into a
serious war. Initially we thought it is a call
to duty, but when got there we realised it
was not going to be easy because of
entrenched interest. With capacity and
network of such interest if you are not
careful one will derail.
“We have conducted the first exams with
the new technology in 2017 and now we
have started selling the registration forms
for 2018 UTME.
At that time many people were saying only
one month for JAMB registration. Some
genuinely and some mischievously. The
genuine ones wondered to register about
200 million candidates is too short a
period. To me I believe that is the right
way to go. For example prior to 2016 we
used to sell JAMB for between five and six
months in theory, but practice we sell 90
percent of the form in 30 days.
Because many people did not have the
fact of the new method, even the National
Assembly, they say we should extend it to
two months.
“Within the last one year students across
the country had paid over N300 million to
JAMB for change of names for wrong
spelling at the CBT centres.”
million for UTME
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede has
said no fewer than 200 million candidates
are expected to register for this year’s
Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examinations (UTME).
Prof Oloyede declared that the
examination body returned N7.8 billion to
the Federal Government coffers from the
proceeds of examination forms sold in
2017.
He stated that the fund was sourced from
the N12billion income made during the
year.
He said the board had effected changes in
the process and procedure for registration
and conduct of examination for candidates
to curb hitherto malpractices in the
processes.
The JAMB boss told reporters at the
weekend in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.
He said contrary to the insinuation that the
board increased the examination fee,
which enabled the milestone, the JAMB
boss said the agency rather made some
reductions in the fee payable for the
examination.
He said the examination board also
significantly reduced the amount paid for
exam by foreign applicants, maintaining
that it was aimed at encouraging huge
number of them.
Oloyede informed that the agency
introduced Central Admission Processing
System (CAPS) in the bid to address the
imbalance observed in the admission
process for the applicants.
He noted that with the introduction of the
system, the process of admission into
higher institutions of learning in the
country has become more transparent,
saying there was no need for any
institution to come to the Headquarters of
the board for certain rectitude.
Oloyede, a former Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Ilorin, said the system
involved by the agency is making 90
percent of admission to be based on merit.
He also stated that the board had
expanded its facilities by spending
N1billion last year, adding that 15,000
centres would be created for prospective
UTME candidates this year.
On his stewardship, he said: “It has been
very tough but it has also been very
rewarding. When we started in 2015 we
did not realize we were going into a
serious war. Initially we thought it is a call
to duty, but when got there we realised it
was not going to be easy because of
entrenched interest. With capacity and
network of such interest if you are not
careful one will derail.
“We have conducted the first exams with
the new technology in 2017 and now we
have started selling the registration forms
for 2018 UTME.
At that time many people were saying only
one month for JAMB registration. Some
genuinely and some mischievously. The
genuine ones wondered to register about
200 million candidates is too short a
period. To me I believe that is the right
way to go. For example prior to 2016 we
used to sell JAMB for between five and six
months in theory, but practice we sell 90
percent of the form in 30 days.
Because many people did not have the
fact of the new method, even the National
Assembly, they say we should extend it to
two months.
“Within the last one year students across
the country had paid over N300 million to
JAMB for change of names for wrong
spelling at the CBT centres.”
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