The
Federal Government of Nigeria has annulled all Post-UTME screening exercises
that have been conducted by schools for 2016/2017 admission and has ordered
fees paid by candidates to be refunded.
The FG had earlier announced the scrapping of the
Post-UTME exercise starting from 2016/17 admission. However, a number of
schools have changed the name to several ones as “admission screening”,
“Admissions Intelligence Quotient Screening” and the likes.
It has been claimed that the reason and purposes of
creating the Post-UTME have been defeated.
The minister of education, Mr. Adamu Adamu in a swift
reaction has reminded all tertiary institutions of Goverment’s resolve to see
Post-UTME screening becoming a thing of the past.
He said, “Those who have already advertised for the
conduct of the post-UTME under any guise should stop the exercise immediately
as any university caught conducting it will face appropriate sanctions.
“If any tertiary institution has conducted the post-UTME,
such an exercise stands annulled and money taken from candidates must be
returned immediately,” Adamu said in a statement.
The Minister added, “For the avoidance of doubt, any
educational institution after secondary education is regarded as a tertiary
institution. Therefore, all tertiary institutions, polytechnics, colleges of
education, universities or by whatever name it is called after secondary
education must be subjected to admission through the JAMB.
“At the end of probationary admission by JAMB, the
candidates can be cleared (screened) for final admission. For any institution
with a shortfall in admission, such institution can revert to JAMB for
supplementary admission. Clearing in this case (screening) entails only the
verification of certificates of the candidates, JAMB scores, and any other
physical examination to ensure that such candidates are not cultists.
“After this, the candidates are qualified for
matriculation. Such screening should be at no cost to the parents or students
and should be done upon resumption in order to avoid unnecessary travels in
search of admission.”
The minister has also summoned all vice-chancellors and
rectors to an emergency meeting over the post-UTME.
A lot of Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges want to
continue conducting Post-UTME screening but the Minister said, “the
responsibility for admission to tertiary institutions lied with JAMB, insisted
that “under no circumstance should anybody or institution take over that
responsibility by proxy.”
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