admission news update for 2016 candidates

Abuja-The Nov. 30 deadline for conclusion of
admissions into higher institutions for 2016
remains effective, the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) said on Friday.
The Registrar of the board, Prof. Is-haq
Oloyede, reaffirmed the deadline in Abuja in his
address at the opening of an Extra-Ordinary
Technical Committee Meeting on 2016
Admissions to First Choice Institutions.
The meeting held at the Baze University, Abuja.
He said that the meeting was an indication
that the board was ready to attend to
legitimate requests of its stakeholders and
clients in the collective quest for efficiency.
Oloyede said that JAMB would be flexible
except in cases where flexibility would be
unethical or inimical to national interest.
According to him, the meeting is in line with
the board’s pledge to be consultative and all-
inclusive in the discharge of its functions.
“The First Technical Committee Meeting was
held in Bayero University, Kano, from Aug. 22
to Aug. 26, where institutions were expected to
make submissions for their first choice
admissions to admissions’ panels at the
technical sessions.
“However, some institutions informed the
meeting that they were not ready to make
submissions as internal processes leading to
the exercise had not been completed.
“The affected institutions requested for an
earlier special date than the date for the
Second Technical Committee Meeting
scheduled for Nov. 14 in Owerri, Imo State,’’ he
said.
Oloyede said that he expected the institutions
represented at the meeting to be prepared to
make presentations of their recommended
candidates to the board.
He said that the meeting was primarily for
placement of suitably qualified candidates into
tertiary institutions.
“As such, I need to re-state my earlier
submission that the senate and the academic
boards of the institutions have the primary
responsibility of recommending candidates to
the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
for admissions.
“JAMB will not initiate or insert any candidates
but will, as expected, ensure that no candidate
is unjustly treated by any institution.
“The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
is thus a referee for justice, equity and
standards,” he said.
The registrar said that the only difference in the
2016 admissions process was the policy that
there should be no written post Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination test.
He said that other admission processes
remained.


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