ASUU Strike Cant Stop Jamb From Selling Forms - Dibu Ojerinde

Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has clarified that despite the ongoing strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the undertakings of the Board would not be influenced, particularly as it anxieties the sale of types for next year’s Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Prof. Ojerinde, who made the disclosure to our sources yesterday, while responding to inquiries on why JAMB embarked on sale of forms when the last batch of thriving candidates were yet to secure admissions into the universities, said the strike could not deter JAMB from selling forms, noting that the
universities would understand how to handle the situation. “The universities will understand how to sort the situation to double-check that the two batches are accepted.
JAMB cannot wait for the universities that are on strike; after all, private universities will also have to accept and we cannot stop the written test except we don’t want private universities to accept. In any case, the federal universities understand how to handle the position to ensure that the backlog is not numerous, and if any of them reports JAMB that it cannot accept, we will delete that university from the admission exercise for this year,” he said.
Professor Ojerinde, although, documented that so far, none of the universities had approached JAMB that it could not admit and should be delisted because it still had a pending batch, noting that most of the universities had been doing their admissions, with some of them having completed the admission exercise.
“University of Benin has finished 100 per cent of its admission; Obafemi Awolowo University has finished more than 70 per cent, and even LAUTECH has finished its admission. The only university that I understand has a problem is the University of Maiduguri and that is because of the Boko Haram debacle. So, they will sort things out,” he added.
It will be recalled that the UTME platform had disintegrated matriculation examinations into universities, polytechnics and colleges of learning, another reason sophisticated by JAMB for the sales of JAMB types despite the strike action by university lecturers.

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