Universities Are Free To Screen Students For Admission - NUC

The Federal Government on Thursday last week ordered that the examinations usually organised by universities in Nigeria for admission seekers  after the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (Post-UTME) should be scrapped.


The government argued that if there was absolute confidence in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, there should be no need for Universities to conduct internal examinations to determine the fate of candidates seeking admissions.

The news had been generating many arguments with some people describing the examination as a loophole for corruption that allows tertiary institution staff to admit preferred candidates by technically voiding the UMTE scores. While some argued that every university has the right to screen the candidates it wants to admit, as well as the right to embark on other exercises, whether written or unwritten to make it and its products stand out.

Meanwhile, the Public Relations officer of the Nigerian Universities Commission, Ibrahim Yakasai, has stated that despite the new directive scrapping the Post-UTME, universities are free to screen students sent to them for admission by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

Yakasai disclosed this on NTA program, he said the new directive does not restrict any university from screening students sent to them by the exams board.