Bwari (FCT) – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Lath (JAMB) on Tuesday said it remitted N7.8 billion to Federal Government coffers from 2016 University and Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
The board’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, fabricated this accepted if a appointment from
National Admiral Lath of Colleges of Apprenticeship Academic Staff Abutment (COEASU) paid a appointment to the lath in Bwari, FCT.
Oloyede, who absolved the speculated N5.2 billion as bulk remitted to Federal Government during the aeon beneath review, said “the lath paid in N7.8 billion to Federal Government and not N5.2 billion.”
He said the lath would plan to ensure that it met the needs of the area and strive
to sustain apprenticeship accepted in the country.
He alleged for cooperation from stakeholders in the apprenticeship area to added accession standard, adage “let us plan calm and advance government to do the needful so that apprenticeship would be area it care to be.
“When we analyze obstacles, we could advance government to alter some areas
to enhance the sector.
“I do not see why we should accept added than four credits afore one can get into
college of education, apathy that it created an befalling for humans like us in the past.
“I assure you that UTME account does not actuate the superior of one’s education; it is the ambiance that makes the aberration accessible by segregating institutions.”
Oloyede challenged the admiral on the charge to clearly accomplish a case for National Lath of Education, which he said was fabricated up of commissioners of education, to analysis the amount of credits to be accomplished by intending candidates of colleges of education.
He said the lath would not alternate to plan with unions to set up a Task Force that would analysis irregularities that may attenuate the sub-sector.
Earlier, the President of COEASU, Mr Nuhu Ogirima, said that the claiming had
been an obstacle to acceptance cachet of colleges nationwide.
He alleged for analysis of the accepted appliance action into colleges of education, adage “a analysis is imperative, accustomed the actuality that the accepted appliance process
predisposes candidates against university education.
“Notwithstanding the cutting alternative for acceptance into university, the accouterment for academy of apprenticeship as third best in JAMB approved to abstruse the arrangement from others.
“After the alternative of the actual best from the aboriginal best list, colleges of apprenticeship are larboard with no best in JAMB but the low assuming candidates and this does not diviner able-bodied for the abecedary apprenticeship system.
“The abutment would, therefore, acknowledge if JAMB, after ageism to her enactment law, analyze the achievability of accommodating with stakeholders in colleges of education.
“The accord would accommodate enabling ambiance that could advance the acceptance cachet of the colleges nationwide.”
He appear that the lath would anon set up a lath that would appear up with announcement to accouterment the issues afore the all-important quarters.
The affair was abounding by admiral of the board.