BREAKING NEWS JAMB: The Striking Non-Academic Staff Threatens To Obstruct 2018 UTME

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JAMB: The Striking Non-Academic Staff Threatens To Obstruct 2018 UTME

The striking Non-Teaching Staff of the Nigerian Universities has threatened to disrupt the 2018 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), set to hold from March 9.

Mr Samson Ugwoke, Chairman, Joint Action Committee (JAC), Non-Teaching Staff of the Nigerian Universities, made the threat at a meeting of the National JAC with the Principal Branch Officers on Wednesday in Abuja.

It is scheduled to hold from March 9 to March 17

Ugwoke said that the threat became imperative as the Federal Government had continued to renege on the agreement it entered with the unions.

According to him, “since our strike continues, JAC has decided that no activity will take place in the universities.”

“This is because if we are on strike and you expect our members to come and supervise JAMB or come to operate their machines like the computers, that means we are breaking the strike already.

“JAC has also decided that to redraw their assistance they would not go to work. So all I know is that as long as we are on strike, JAC has decide that there will be no exam.

“Our members will not participate and they will make sure that the exam does not hold in the universities that is the position of JAC, ‘’ he said.

He noted that JAC has also decided to hold a mega mass protest rally on Thursday, March 8, to sensitise the public on the issue of alleged corruption and the social injustices in the Nigerian university system.

He added that the problem of corruption would continue to cripple the university system, unless the Federal Government takes a decisive step to tackle the menace.

The Non-Teaching Staff of Nigerian Universities are made of the Non Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (NASU), Senior Staff Academic of Nigerian Universities(SSANU) National Association of Academic Technologists, (NAAT).

 

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JAMB Records Alarming Low Registered Candidates For 2018

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Wednesday said it recorded a decrease in the number of registered candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations in 2018.

The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.

According to him, a total number of 1,662,762 candidates registered for the 2018 UTME, within a period of two months, as against a total of 1,718,425 candidates who registered within one month in 2017.

He explained that the decrease of 3.2 per cent was largely as a result of measures put in place by the board to forestall multiple registrations and other unwholesome practices by candidates.

Oloyede noted that a total of 367 visually impaired candidates registered for the 2018 examination, as against the 201 candidates of 2017.

“The board will continue to provide all necessary support and logistics to the physically challenged candidates in order to encourage them to attain their pursuit for knowledge.

“The board recorded a pleasantly high number of candidates for the 2018 UTME examinations from foreign countries.

“The board is yet to get the actual statistics from the various embassies, those who applied for the examinations would commence after the local centres have concluded,”‎ he said.

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