OVER 700,000 NIGERIAN STUDENTS WILL LOST 2017 ADMISSION INTO VARIOUS SCHOOLS.

The Joint Admissions and

Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that

over 1.6 candidates have been recommended

for admission in the 2017/2018 admission year

from various tertiary institutions .

Of that amount, only 500,000 have accepted

their admission as at the time of filling this

report.

The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian

Benjamin who disclosed this during an

interview with LEADERSHIP Friday yesterday

stated that it was far beyond numbers recorded

for other years.

Benjamin however stated that candidates were

to accept their admission before the admission

is said to be complete.

He attributed the increase to the flexibility of

the cut-off marks and also the availability of

data through the JAMB CAPS (Central

Admission Processing System) which was

introduced last year.

“We have over 500,000 accepted admission

already. By the time the 1.1 candidates accept,

we are now looking at 1.6 admission. So until

the 1.1 candidates accept, by the time they

accept, with the 500,000 that have accepted,

we will have about 1.6 million accepted,” he

said.

He explained that in CAPS, institution forwards

recommended list to JAMB desk officer, the

desk officer processes recommended list and

generates list of provisional admissions, JAMB

contacts candidates to accept or decline

admission. If candidate accepts, admission is

concluded for candidate.

The admission process ended yesterday, by 12

midnight but the process of acceptance still

continues.

Maenwhile, the Joint Admissions and

Matriculation Board (JAMB) had expressed

optimism that tertiary institutions in Nigeria will

comply with its directive on the deadline of

admission.

The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian

Benjamin who spoke with LEADERSHIP stated

that when the directive was given, many

universities have completed the process of

their admission while some were at 95 per cent

of completion.

Benjamin added that the institutions had

reached that stage of admission process even

with the strike action by the Non-Academic

Staff Union of Universities (NASU) adding that

the strike had not affected the process.

Recall that NON teaching staff unions in the

universities under the umbrella of Joint Action

Committee, JAC, last December directed all

their branches nationwide to embark on a

strike.

The three unions are the Senior Staff

Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU,

Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and

Associated Institutions, NASU and National

Association of Academic Technologists, NAAT.

“Many universities have already finished their

admission. Those who have not finished are

already in their 95 per cent completion. This

they did even with the strike. So nothing will

stop them to finish the remaining five percent,”

he said.

The head of media further stated that the

deadline was given by the Board because it

didn’t want the school calendar to be

disrupted.

“Even after the strike action, the calendar will

still be there,” he said.

Recall that JAMB has given directed to all

tertiary institutions to end their 2017 admission

by January 25, 2018.