The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),
University of Ibadan chapter, has faulted the
guidelines released by the Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) for admission of
candidates into Nigerian tertiary institutions stating
that JAMB acted beyond its powers.
According to the union, the Senate of Nigerian
Universities has the mandate to regulate admission
modalities as each university has standards which
are not subjected to the whims and caprices of any
government appointee.
Speaking, the Chairman of the union, Dr. Deji Omole,
said both the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu
Adamu, and JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde,
first got it wrong by going against the administrative
charges collected by institutions for post-UTME and
later reversed their stand in their guidelines which he
described as illegal and designed to favour children
of the rich against the poor.
He mentioned that the point-based scoring system in
the guidelines is not new as it has been used in UI 5
years ago and abandoned.
He equally stated that JAMB is only trying to cover
up their inadequacies as its credibility is yearly
queried. He pointed out that last year candidates
were pushed to private universities against their will
and this year JAMB awarded 40 marks to some
candidates without justification.
He further mentioned that with the stipulation on the
current guidelines many candidates will be
disadvantaged and JAMB would have succeeded in
entrenching corruption and further kill tertiary
education in the country.
