At last Federal Govt Lifts Ban On Post-utme, Screening By Universities. See Details

Report getting to us now is that the Federal Government has lifted the prohibition on the disputable examinations typically sorted out by colleges in Nigeria for admission searchers after the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). 

The Federal Government had a year ago requested the rejecting of post-UTME for candidates.Speaking in a select meeting with The Guardian in Abuja yesterday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu, said colleges could now compose post-UTME as a pre-condition to picking up induction into colleges in the nation. 

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The pastor, who however encouraged college specialists to make the charges for the screening reasonable and not to force gigantic budgetary weight on the guardians, stated: "We will enable colleges to compose post-UTME on the off chance that they need. 

"We have requested that them not force immense money related weight on the guardians. The weight ought not be more than what they can bear."Adamu said that the Federal Government had ceased the rejecting of the examination to completely comprehend what was happening in colleges, including: "We are presently more shrewd." 

The clergyman, who communicated trust in the examination led by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), said the administration of JAMB had dispatched N5 billion to the Federal Government coffers, which happens to be the most elevated so far over the most recent 40 years of the board's presence. 

He stated: "Since JAMB was built up over 40 years back, the aggregate sum it has given government was N200 million, however in one year, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has dispatched N5 billion to government. 

"The new JAMB recorder has been adjusting numerous inconsistencies in the board. Inside a year, he has possessed the capacity to stop all the untold things that were going on there.