The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has allayed the fears of candidates whose admission fate had been kept in the balance because of the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
The board assured such candidates that despite the strikes that had affected the academic calendar since 2020, no offer of admission it made to candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) had been cancelled.
ASUU had gone on strike for 10 months in 2020 during the outbreak of COVID-19.
This year, the union was on strike for another eight months, thereby disrupting the academic calendar, leading to a backlog of admissions which many public universities are battling to resolve.
The board urged the affected candidates to relate with their institutions of choice to find out the session they are currently running.
JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, spoke on these issues, among others, before he declared open the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) yesterday in Abuja.
He said the Senate of each university was responsible for admission, adding that the role of JAMB is to supervise the process to ensure that candidates are not shortchanged.
Oloyede said: “The onus of admitting students lies on the respective institutions. JAMB is a coordinating centre; JAMB cannot and will not determine any institution’s academic calendar. You are aware that universities and special institutions are still in their 2020/2021 academic session. Some are in the 2021/2022 academic session and some are in the 2022/2023 academic session.
We have three academic sessions running in universities in different parts of the country. My advice is that candidates should interact with their respective institutions to know which session is going on and contact JAMB…
“No admission has been cancelled for any session or for any institutions except the Senate of that institution says so.
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