Education
JAMB directs tertiary institutions to conclude 2021 admissions
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all tertiary institutions to complete the 2021 admission exercise.
It said the call became necessary following a negligible number of fully-processed 2021 admissions on the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) out of the teeming population of eligible candidates with the requisite qualification “yearning for admission.”
The Board said admissions for only 100, 000 candidates have been processed out of the over 600, 000 eligible candidates.
According to the weekly bulletin released by Head of Information and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Monday, JAMB’s Director of Admissions, Mohammed Ahmed, stated these while briefing some select institutional Desk Officers.
The director implored the desk officers to interact with their respective institutions to ensure that even if they are not ready for the students to resume, they can conduct such admissions prior to their respective chosen resumption dates to enable their candidates to know their fate.
Ahmed said the board was ready to roll out the 2022 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) application documents, hence the need for Desk Officers to be proactive.
The director of admissions, during the meeting, 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 board is aware of the numerous challenges that have impacted the academic calendars of tertiary institutions as well as the smooth processing of admission requests but urged them to devise acceptable means of closing the gap and complete the 2021 admission exercise on schedule,” it said.
It would be recalled that over 1.4 million candidates registered for both the 2021 UTME and Direct Entry of which only about 600, 000 possessed the requisite qualifications to be admitted based on available records with JAMB.
Meanwhile, the board said it has changed the literature texts in four language subjects, including Literature – in – English ahead of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
JAMB listed the four language subjects as Arabic, Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa.
“New text for Literature-in-English include Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka; Look Back in Anger by John Osborne; Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta; Unexpected Joy at Dawn by Alex Agyei Agyiri; and Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte.
“These changes would take effect from the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME),” JAMB said.
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Education
No UTME candidates will take exam outside state of registration – JAMB
No UTME candidates will take exam outside state of registration – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that candidates will not sit for the board’s examination outside their state of registration.
The announcement was made by JAMB Public Communication Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday.
Benjamin revealed that candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) outside their state of registration and residence were sent to the available mock centres closer to their areas.
According to him, the move was because not all the Computer Based Test (CBT) centres were available to conduct the mock examination.
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Benjamin added that all registered centres would be available for the main exercise.
“If centres for mock in Abuja are filled up, and there were available centres in Nassarawa State, candidates will be sent there,” he said.
He, however, added that it was unlikely in the main exercise because there will be more centres conducting the main examination: no candidate would be sent outside their state of residence.
Benjamin further disclosed that early UTME registration also determines the proximity of a candidate’s centre.
If a centre was already filled up, the candidate may be assigned any available centre within the state.
No UTME candidates will take exam outside state of registration – JAMB
Education
NELFUND: How schools, banks are ripping off students
NELFUND: How schools, banks are ripping off students
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) said its recent investigations have revealed have uncovered several unethical practices by some institutions of higher learning in the disbursement of the Federal Government Student Loan Fund, NELFUND.
Paul Odenyi, Deputy Director, Communications and Media, NOA quoted the Director General of the Agency, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu as announcing the findings after meeting with NELFUND Managing Director, Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, over the weekend.
According to the statement, the findings from investigations conducted by the Community Orientation and Mobilisation Officers (COMO) of NOA revealed that the tertiary institutions and banks are conspiring to short-change the students who are beneficiaries of NELFUND.
According to the statement, the reports indicated that certain university officials have been withholding vital information regarding loan disbursements, prompting immediate action from NELFUND.
“The NOA’s feedback shows how specific institutions have, in connivance with some banks, deliberately delayed payments to successful student applicants for personal financial benefit. Some universities fail to acknowledge the NELFUND’s disbursements to the students,” the statement by NOA indicated.
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The statement also quoted Sawyerr as confirming that some institutions are failing to inform students about loan disbursements made in their name while still requiring them to pay tuition fees.
He stated, “Recent findings by NELFUND have shown that some institutions have received student loan disbursements directly into their accounts yet neglect to inform the affected students or record the payments in their financial records, leading to unnecessary confusion.
“Withholding critical financial information from students is not only unethical but also a breach of the principles on which NELFUND was founded. We are prepared to take legal action against any institution engaged in such deceptive practices.”
In response, Mallam Issa-Onilu has issued a strong warning to these institutions and collaborating banks to cease such activities.
“NOA has directed its state directorates to provide further feedback from students across the country to ensure that the Federal Government takes appropriate actions against erring schools and banks,” Mallam Issa-Onilu was quoted as saying.
NELFUND: How schools, banks are ripping off students
Education
Varsity strike looms as NASU alleges secret ASUU-FG deal on allowance
Varsity strike looms as NASU alleges secret ASUU-FG deal on allowance
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has expressed concerns over a suspected secret agreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) regarding the disbursement of a ₦50bn earned allowance.
NASU’s General Secretary, Prince Peters Adeyemi, warned that favouring ASUU over other unions could trigger a new wave of industrial unrest.
Adeyemi, who was speaking at the Universities and Inter-University Centres Trade Group Council Meeting in Abuja, disclosed that the government had promised to release the N50 billion for earned allowances in August 2022, but payment has yet to be made.
The union suspects that the government intends to allocate the entire amount to ASUU alone, citing an exclusive invitation to ASUU for a stakeholders’ meeting on the earned allowance.
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Adeyemi highlighted past grievances over unequal division of funds between academic and non-academic staff, stating, “When they want to share the money, they give 20 per cent to the three non-teaching staff unions and 70 per cent to the academics. We protested this.”
The union demanded a fair and inclusive allocation of the N50bn, emphasising that selective payments would breach agreements and deepen divisions within the university system.
NASU also expressed frustration over the failure of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) to fully integrate assets and liabilities, affecting non-teaching staff.
The union condemned the illegal stoppage of union dues in some institutions, citing labour laws.
NASU also criticised the government’s failure to pay arrears and the delayed renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, which stalled in December 2024.
The union warned that unless the earned allowance is distributed fairly and issues surrounding IPPIS and pending agreements are resolved, it will not hesitate to take industrial action.
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