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JAMB: Conduct of UTME challenging- Registrar

By Wale Odunsi on November 9, 2016@dailypostngr

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has said that inadequate funding posed a challenge to the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

Recall that the body recently announced plans to scrap cut off marks.

Oloyede said this yesterday when he received a delegation of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institution and Tertiary Education Trust Fund in his office in Bwari, Abuja.
Oloyede said: “The major challenge facing the board has to do with funding. We take N5,000 from each candidate.

“We do not even have the money to conduct the examination.
“Rather, we call on third party to do some of the things and they only give some commission to JAMB because we do not have enough money to invest.

“Conduct of examination across the country requires intensive human participation; you will recruit invigilators and monitors and then it costs so much money to set exam questions.
“The capital allocation is N1 billion; the release so far is N45.57million; the overhead cost is N50 million allocated, but N24.9 million is what we have received so far.
“The N24.9 million given is not sufficient to pay electricity bills because all the 36 states and zonal offices depend on what comes from headquarters for their funding.”
Oloyede appealed to the National Assembly to review its decision on the bill seeking to validate the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for three years to avoid harm.

He said that extending the validity of JAMB result would do more harm than good and there is therefore the need to reconsider many things before arriving at a decision.