The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it has not mandated the cancellation of any admission offered to university students between 2020 and 2023 sessions.
Speaking at the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, in Abuja, on Wednesday, JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, insisted that admission into universities across the country from 2020, 2021, 2022- 2023 were valid and have not elapsed.
Oloyede’s remarks follow the resumption of academic activities in public universities after the 8-month-long industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which has resulted in accumulated admissions for different sessions.
According to the JAMB boss, the board has not cancelled any admission for any session and no admission by the board has elapsed or will elapse, stressing that admission for any particular session would- be determined by the Senate of the various universities.
“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, 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 on their 2020-2021 academic session, some are on 2021-2022 academic session while some are in 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.
“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,” he said.
He urged the affected universities, polytechnics or colleges of education must find a way to streamline all the existing academic programmes prior to ASUU strike which was called off recently.
