We don’t have money to conduct UTME, says JAMB registrar

Is-haq Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB, has said that the board cannot adequately fund the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The professor said this in his Abuja office on Wednesday while he received a delegation of the senate committee on tertiary institutions and Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFund).

He said: “The major challenge facing the board has to do with funding; we take N5,000 from each candidate; we do not even have the money to conduct the examination.

“Rather, we call on third party to do some of the things and they only give some commission to JAMB, because we do not have enough money to invest.

“Conduct of examination across the country requires intensive human participation; you will recruit invigilators and monitors and then it costs so much money to set exam questions.

“The capital allocation is N1 billion; the release so far is N45. 57million; the overhead cost is N50 million allocated, but N24.9 million is what we have received so far.

“The N24.9 million given is not sufficient to pay electricity bills because all the 36 states and zonal offices depend on what comes from headquarters for their funding,” Oloyede explained.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oloyede also urged the National Assembly to review its decision to make the UTME result valid for three years.
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  1. So prof Dibu just dey chop chop money during his tenure?
    Corruption don kill this country O!

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  2. Almost all critical institutions of governance is collapsing under this clueless incompetent, insensitive and wicked APC government.
    ..na change be that.
    Chanji dole!
    Sai Baba!
    Sai Tinubu!

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  3. Almost all critical institutions of governance is collapsing under this clueless incompetent, insensitive and wicked APC government.
    ..na change be that.
    Chanji dole!
    Sai Baba!
    Sai Tinubu!

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  4. @ Isiaka......must you comment on everything that comes your way? Keeping quite does not mean that you dont know what is going wrong.If you are silence or quite you would see what is wrong around you. So be patient with everything in life.

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  5. I think PDP caused it,everything crumbling and buhari is still promising.body language is no more working.

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