9:58:00 pm
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu
Adamu has directed all tertiary institutions that have conducted post-UTME
examination to immediately refund money taken from candidates.
The minister has also declared that
post-UTME examinations already taken are null and void; threatening that any
institution caught still conducting the examination under any guise would be
sanctioned.
The minister made this position known yesterday, in a press statement issued by Deputy Director Press and Public Relations, Ben Bem Goong. The strong-worded statement reiterated the Ministry’s position that post-UTME examinations have been cancelled with immediate effect and no institution should conduct such examinations. The minister warned that once the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has certified a candidate worthy of admission into any of the tertiary institutions, that candidate must be deemed fit by the institution.
WOSS gathered that students who have already been offered
admission by JAMB may be screened by the institutions but this must not involve
the conduct of any other entry examination. The candidates can be screened by
verifying their certificates but not through the conduct of examinations.
The minister stated that it is
unnecessary to subject students to further examinations when they have been
offered examinations by JAMB since they will still have to go through between
eight or 12-semester examinations throughout their four to six years study in
the institutions.
The minister, therefore, directed
the National Universities Commission (NUC) and appropriate departments in the
Ministry to communicate the directive to relevant agencies and institutions to
ensure strict compliance.
“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 Post-UTME will face appropriate
sanctions. If any tertiary Institution has already conducted Post-UTME, such an
exercise stands annulled and money taken from such candidates must be refunded
immediately”, the Minister said.
