​​No Admission For Awaiting Result Candidates This Year* No fewer than one million candidates who applied for a

No fewer than one million candidates who applied
for admissions into the universities with awaiting
results may be denied admissions as many of the
institutions have fixed dates to commence
screening of prospective applicants for the
2016/2017 academic session.
Saturday Sun investigations revealed that over one
million candidates currently in secondary schools
that wrote the 2017 Universities Matriculation
Tertiary Examination (UTME) did so as awaiting
result candidates, which has been the practice.
In the May/June2017 West African Senior School
Certificate Examination (WASSCE), 1,552,772
million candidates registered for the school exam
while over 1,200,000 million candidates also
registered for the Senior School Certificate
Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Ex­
aminations Council (NECO)
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is
currently marking the answer scripts of candidates
that wrote the May/June 2017 WASSCE and would
release the results in August while the SSCE
conducted by NECO is on going nationwide and
would be concluded July ending.
Some of the universities have placed adverts
inviting prospective candidates for the screening
exercise for the 2016/2017 academic session start­
ing this month even as WAEC is yet to release the
May/June 2017 WASSCE result, while other
candidates are currently writing the SSCE (NECO),
which would be released either in September or
October.
In some of the advertisements for the screening
text, the universities stated that applicants for
admissions are to come with original UTME result,
WAEC or NECO result, birth certificates, scratch
card, local government area and state of origin
certificates, testimonial of schools attended, police
and medical reports.
The implication is that many of the prospective
candidates seeking admission with awaiting results
may miss the opportunity unless the Federal
Government wades into the issue. The fear of
parents and schools is that some of the institutions
would have concluded the screening exercise
before WAEC and NECO release the results.
The Federal University of Petroleum Resources
Effurun (FUPRE) in its advert inviting applicants’
admission it reads: “Only candidates who have five
credits at one or two sittings (including English
Language and Mathematics) are eligible to apply.
Candidates awaiting results may, however, be con­
sidered for the 2016/2017 admissions exercise.’’