JAMB won’t decide for schools on those to admit – Registrar

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, Prof Is’haq Oloyede, has said the Board would not interfere with the list of candidates sent by institutions for the 2016 admissions, either by addition or removal of names.
Oloyede said the Board was committed to ensuring that admissions are concluded before or by the approved deadline of November 30, 2016.
He said: “To whom much is given, a lot is expected.”
Prof Oloyede, spoke at the ongoing technical meeting on 2016 admissions to first choice institutions at the Bayero University Kano.
He warned that no name of candidate must emanate from any other source outside the list prepared and recommended by the tertiary institutions.
His words, “the 2016 admissions, will be as smooth as ever. The only difference between this year’s admissions process and what has always been the practice, is the policy that there should be no written post UTME test. All other processes should and will be as they have always been.
The Senate or Academic Board of each institution has the prerogative of admitting candidates to their respective institutions subject of course only to National Policies.”
He spoke further, “In the discharge of this National assignment, it is important that we act with focus on what is beneficial to the largest number of Nigerians. We must avoid adding to the burden of the masses of our people who rightly yearn for higher education as a veritable means of active participation in public life.
“While urging us to work hard and exhibit commitment, synergy and cooperation between the Board and the institutions, I assure you all that the hands of fellowship which my predecessors have extended to the institutions would be strengthened for the advancement of National goals.
“It must be made categorically clear that the task of JAMB is coordination and not substitution of the traditional responsibilities of the Senates/Academic Boards of tertiary institutions.
“Consequently, no candidate must emanate from any other source (JAMB inclusive) outside the list prepared and recommended by the institutions.
JAMB has the right to reject candidates for non-compliance with extant rules and regulations but will not be allowed to substitute or originate any names without the prior concurrence of the institutions.”