The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede said that JAMB has not cancelled any admission for any session and that no session has elapsed or will elapse its period.
Prof. Oloyede also said that admission for any particular session would be determined by the Senate of the various universities.
The Registrar of JAMB made these known in Abuja while declaring open the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU,
According to him, “What I mean is that no admission has been cancelled for any session for any school, we except the Senate of that university, we have all admissions going on, they have not lapsed and it is now for the institutions to determine which and how to go about it. I want to use this opportunity to appeal to not only parents but to just contact the institution of their children to know where they are and then contact JAMB for whatever is necessary for proper documentation of their admission processes”.
Prof. Oloyede further stated that the affected universities, polytechnics and colleges of education must find a way to streamline all the existing academic programmes before the strike which the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) had embarked on but called off recently.
He stressed that student admission lies in the individual universities’ administrations, noting that about three different sessions are being run by various universities concurrently and must be concluded within their stipulated timeframe.
Candidates and Choice Institutions
According to him, while some universities are still in their 2020/2021 academic session, some other ones are in the 2021/2022 academic session and others are in their 2022/2023 academic session.
He said candidates seeking admission have to interact with the respective institutions they applied to study to know the particular session being run at the moment.
“Now that some normalcy is being restored in our tertiary institutions, particularly with regards to the Universities, many people have been asking which session is being run, how do we get students back to campus? Please the onus of recruiting, engaging, and admitting students lies virtually in the respective institutions.
JAMB is a coordinating centre, JAMB cannot and will not determine how universities conduct their admissions.
“You are aware that some universities and some special institutions are still in their 2020-2021 academic session, some are in the 2021-2022 academic session while some are in the 2022-2023 academic session, so we have three academic sessions running concurrently in different parts of the country.
“So my advice which I want to send through you is that candidates should interact with their respective institutions, know which session is being run, which session is being patched and contact JAMB only for making sure that all their claims are validated.
Meanwhile, Prof Oloyede affirmed that JAMB has no control over admission processes by universities
Dominica Nwabufo
