Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has called on the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to stop giving “preferential
scores” to students in Northern Nigeria.
Appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’, the
Governor said it was wrong for the students in the North who sit for the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to get preferential
treatment.
El-Rufai said that all students in the country should get
the same cut-off marks and that students in the North should not be given lower
cut-off marks.
“The north has always been behind in education, we’ve continuously been the disadvantaged region right from independence even though we’re given preferences, JAMB scores and all that. That has not helped; in fact, it has made our people lazy,” the Governor said.
The Governor said instead of the differential JAMB and
Federal Government scores, students in the North should be encouraged to work
hard and compete with the other regions.
Recall that recently JAMB had cancelled the national cut-off
mark.
According to JAMB, Nigeria’s tertiary institutions will now
determine their admission benchmark.
This decision was made at the 2021 policy meeting presided
over by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.
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