JAMB remits additional N2.6bn to treasury

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has remitted additional N2.6 billion to the federal treasury.

The Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede made the declaration at meeting with the executives of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COESU) in his office in Bwari, Abuja.

He said the N5.2bn earlier sent to the federal purse wasn’t the total money the board transferred to the government. He said more monies generated from the sale of 2017 admission documents, were transferred and so far, the board had remitted N7.8 billion to the treasury.

He said applicants were allowed to choose colleges of education as first choice institutions in the admission forms but most of them prefered to choose universities because the O’ level, 5 credits requirement for admission into higher institutions was uniform.

COESU National President, Nuhu Ogirima said the earlier transfer of over N5bn to the “nation’s ailing coffers, shall remain quite indelible.”

He said most matriculants put colleges of education as third choices in their UTME forms and consequently “after the selection of the very best from the first choice list, the college of education system is left with no choice but the very low performing candidates. This does not augur very well for the teacher education system especially at the colleges of education level.”

A six-man committee was later set up to review the admission requirements for the colleges of education.

In a separate development, the board has issued a statement advising candidates not to patronize fake question in CD Rom called “JAMB PRO CBT practice software for UTME,” being circulated.