NANS Restates Support for JAMB, Tasks DE Candidates on Registration Deadline

Uchechukwu Nnaike

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has assured the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of its continued support of the board’s efforts to sanitize the country’s education sector.

NANS Vice-President, External Affairs, Mr. Babatunde Akinteye, who gave the assurance in a statement, said the board has invested alot to save the sector from those who do not mean well for the country and the future of the children.

He said the board’s promptness to issues of malpractices and other corrupt practices in the country’s education sector is one of the strongest pillars, still holding the system against a final collapse.

While commending JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Akinteye said: “He is a patriot and a man of integrity. About two weeks ago, acting on a piece of information, I went with my team to the JAMB office at Ikoyi in Lagos at about past 11p.m. and I met prospective direct entry candidates sleeping outside the office in a bid to meet up with the completion of their registration and a closing date that was in earnest.

“I was forced to call out JAMB, as an agency and a meeting was summoned. It was in this meeting that we were made to understand that the registration centres were reduced because of the abnormalities going on in some tertiary institutions.

“Some students purchase Ordinary National Diploma (OND) certificates and then use same to obtain their direct entry forms to begin at a higher level in various institutions of higher learning,” he explained.

According to him, this unhealthy practice has been going on and JAMB got to discover and in the bid to curb the act, went ahead to streamline the registration centres for the examination, for proper monitoring and supervision.

“Before the end of the said meeting, we were able to appeal to JAMB to decongest these centres and extend the closing date for more candidates to be able to complete their registrations and they obliged immediately.

“Lagos was given another registration centre, which is the JKK CBT Centre on Ikorodu Road and thereafter the decongestion continued. The issue now is this: due to an extension by the board of the closing date, the direct entry candidates have relaxed.

“They have stopped going for registration and it shouldn’t be so. This second phase of extension closes any time from now.

” I therefore want to use this medium to thank the JAMB registrar once again for this rare privilege. I am also appealing to the direct entry candidates to complete their registrations before the stipulated deadline to avoid the unnecessary 11th hour rush that is inimical to us.

“I also wish to inform institutions of higher learning across the country and beyond, who are culpable in this certificate sales saga, that we are compiling their names and we shall expose them all in no record time,” he warned.

He also urged Nigerian students to shun all acts capable of compromising their future; avoid cutting corners and rather emulate the country’s past and present who had always been patriotically sincere, diligent and meticulous in all their dealings.

The vice president external affairs said if the youths continue indulging in the illegal act of buying certificates, the long arm of the law would definitely catch up with them sooner than expected, noting that the consequences are usually grave.

He also appealed to them not to allow themselves to be used by those he described as enemies of JAMB.

The board had on May 23, reopened another window for the registration of the direct entry candidates after public outcry for an extension of the exercise.
It stated that as a responsible organisation, it would continue to do its best to ensure that every Nigerian child was given equal opportunity for the quest for higher learning, but with zero tolerance to any form of malpractice.
It had also stated that the one week window would end on May 30, with no plans for further extension.

NANS Restates Support for JAMB, Tasks DE Candidates on Registration Deadline

Uchechukwu Nnaike

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has assured the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of its continued support of the board’s efforts to sanitize the country’s education sector.

NANS Vice-President, External Affairs, Mr. Babatunde Akinteye, who gave the assurance in a statement, said the board has invested alot to save the sector from those who do not mean well for the country and the future of the children.

He said the board’s promptness to issues of malpractices and other corrupt practices in the country’s education sector is one of the strongest pillars, still holding the system against a final collapse.

While commending JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Akinteye said: “He is a patriot and a man of integrity. About two weeks ago, acting on a piece of information, I went with my team to the JAMB office at Ikoyi in Lagos at about past 11p.m. and I met prospective direct entry candidates sleeping outside the office in a bid to meet up with the completion of their registration and a closing date that was in earnest.

“I was forced to call out JAMB, as an agency and a meeting was summoned. It was in this meeting that we were made to understand that the registration centres were reduced because of the abnormalities going on in some tertiary institutions.

“Some students purchase Ordinary National Diploma (OND) certificates and then use same to obtain their direct entry forms to begin at a higher level in various institutions of higher learning,” he explained.

According to him, this unhealthy practice has been going on and JAMB got to discover and in the bid to curb the act, went ahead to streamline the registration centres for the examination, for proper monitoring and supervision.

“Before the end of the said meeting, we were able to appeal to JAMB to decongest these centres and extend the closing date for more candidates to be able to complete their registrations and they obliged immediately.

“Lagos was given another registration centre, which is the JKK CBT Centre on Ikorodu Road and thereafter the decongestion continued. The issue now is this: due to an extension by the board of the closing date, the direct entry candidates have relaxed.

“They have stopped going for registration and it shouldn’t be so. This second phase of extension closes any time from now.

” I therefore want to use this medium to thank the JAMB registrar once again for this rare privilege. I am also appealing to the direct entry candidates to complete their registrations before the stipulated deadline to avoid the unnecessary 11th hour rush that is inimical to us.

“I also wish to inform institutions of higher learning across the country and beyond, who are culpable in this certificate sales saga, that we are compiling their names and we shall expose them all in no record time,” he warned.

He also urged Nigerian students to shun all acts capable of compromising their future; avoid cutting corners and rather emulate the country’s past and present who had always been patriotically sincere, diligent and meticulous in all their dealings.

The vice president external affairs said if the youths continue indulging in the illegal act of buying certificates, the long arm of the law would definitely catch up with them sooner than expected, noting that the consequences are usually grave.

He also appealed to them not to allow themselves to be used by those he described as enemies of JAMB.

The board had on May 23, reopened another window for the registration of the direct entry candidates after public outcry for an extension of the exercise.
It stated that as a responsible organisation, it would continue to do its best to ensure that every Nigerian child was given equal opportunity for the quest for higher learning, but with zero tolerance to any form of malpractice.
It had also stated that the one week window would end on May 30, with no plans for further extension.