JAMB Releases New Policies For Direct Entry

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) releases new policies concerning Direct Entry (DE) candidates, shares relentless efforts aimed at enhancing the growth of the nation’s education sector to promote transparency, accountability and good governance.

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Direct Entry (DE) has expressed its commitment to press ahead with its efforts to reposition the conduct of public examinations in Nigeria, stated that the seeming crisis was birthed by the implementation of some of its newly-adopted processes aimed at curbing infractions in the admission value chain given our national peculiarities.

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Direct Entry (DE) candidates seeking to gain admission to Nigerian universities will henceforth be required to sit for the UTME along with other candidates. Jamb new policy was to be situated within the ambit of the board’s relentless efforts aimed at enhancing the growth of the nation’s education sector to promote transparency, accountability and ensure good governance that the DE candidates justify the possession of their A’level certificates. 

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) also stated that the seeming crisis was birthed by the implementation of some of its newly-adopted processes aimed at curbing infractions in the admission value chain given our national peculiarities.

JAMB said that the new policy was to ensure that the DE candidates justify the possession of their A’level certificates.

This is disclosed in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday by the board’s Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, at the end of its management committee meeting.

It reflects to a downward review of the N1.2 billion being annually paid to another to about N400 million with the same old service provider. This in addition to the recovery of over N1.2 billion in both cash and estates in choice areas of Abuja in 2016. Benjamin added that the steps had ensured that the board, which had remitted cumulatively in its 40 years of existence about N55 million to the national treasury, rendered N7.8 billion in the first year of the assumption of office of Oloyede.

In four years since the reduction,The capital fund (N11 pbillion including N6 billion, which is yet to be committed), Annual Awards/Grants to tertiary institutions for Capital Projects (N1 billion) and Special Staff Welfare Scheme (N2 billion). This would aggregate the cumulative surplus to about N54 billion over the last six years.

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