Finally Federal Government Scrapes off Post-UTME (Must See For All Jambites)

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, today announced the scrapping of post UTME examinations organized by various Universities for prospective students who partake in JAMB examinations.


He also added that the federal government have confidence in JAMB, any complain JAMB if the universities have any complain against JAMB let them bring it and then we address it. If JAMB is qualified enough to conduct tests and they have conducted test then there will be no need to conduct another test for students to gain admission” he said.

Meanwhile JAMB authorities have put the cutoff mark for admission into all Tertiary institutions at 180. Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, announced this today at the event.

 “180 is given, no institution will go below 180 this year, And some universities can go above it, I know University of Ife will not go below 200 and University of Lagos will not go below 200 and also UI. All these ones stand but 180 as bench mark for others. This year we have more than enough candidates, we have over 1.5 million candidates so we will get enough candidates to take in all theschools if they are serious. Re-distribution ialready ongoing, because it is embedded in the registration procedure.”he said