UNIVERSITIES CAN NOW CONDUCT POST UTME*

*UNIVERSITIES CAN NOW CONDUCT POST UTME*
Adamu

The Federal Government has lifted the ban on
the conduct of post-UTME examinations by
universities for admission seekers after the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations
(UTME) by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB).
This was revealed in Abuja by the Minister of
Education, Adamu Adamu, saying that
Universities, Polytechnics and other
institutions were free to organise post-UTME
screening as a pre-condition to gaining
admission into public institutions.
Recall that Adamu, at a combined policy
meeting on admissions to Universities,
Polytechnics and other higher institutions in
Nigeria, held in Abuja, June last year, banned
the examination.
Announcing the change, Adamu explained
that the Federal Government scrapped the
examination in order to fully understand what
was going on in the institutions but added
that the government was now wiser regarding
the conduct of the examination.
He urged the institutions and its authorities
to make the fees for the post-UTME screening
affordable in order not to impose huge
financial burdens on parents.
“We are going to allow universities to have
some choice. Universities can now decide to
organise post-UTME, if they want,” Adamu
stated.
“We have asked them not to impose huge
financial burden on the parents. The burden
should not be more than what they can
bear.”
He expressed confidence in the examination
conducted by the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) and hailed the
management of JAMB for remitting N5
billion to the Federal Government, saying the
money was the highest so far in the last 40
years of JAMB’s existence.

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