A protest is ongoing in University of Lagos main campus gate, following an alleged new policy by Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which changes university applicants choice without their consent.
An applicant to the university, Oyeniran Adebola Oyejoke, contacted The Bug hours before the protest to complain about not being able to register for the Post UTME examination which was declared open today.
According to Adebola, her attempts to register was repelled by a message that read: "you are not eligible". See excerpts from Adebola's conversation with The Bug in screenshots below.
The rumour that follow suggest that JAMB conspired with private universities who are not getting enough applications from university hopefuls to force students to accept them. The information below has been circulating amongst stakeholders since morning.
UNILAG Notice To 2015 Post-UTME Candidates On New Admission Policy
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) wishes to inform prospective candidates that JAMB, at its 2015 Combined Policy Meeting, announced the adoption of a new policy whereby candidates of universities with surplus applicants for the Unified Matriculation Examinations (UTME) are reassigned to other universities with lower number of candidates than their capacities.
According to the Registrar/CEO of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, the policy portends two benefits:
1) It will be beneficial to “needy Universities” that is universities with lower number of candidates than their capacities, as this will ensure that these universities will have more candidates to admit.
2) Candidates will have better chances for admission in the universities they are re-assigned to, contrary to situations where they would await admission in the universities of their first choices until the admission exercise closes and they forfeit admission in that session.
This policy has been implemented with immediate effect.
Consequently, the eligibility for Post-UTME screening in the University of Lagos like other universities in Nigeria has been determined by JAMB.
In effect, only candidates whose names were forwarded to the University of Lagos by JAMB are eligible for the 2015/2016 post-UTME screening.
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