JAMB 2016 Sale Of Forms Closes this Friday

The Authority of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said that Sales of the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations UTME, forms close on Friday, 29 January.
The board has also approved more computer-based test CBT, examination centres across the country.
Head of Media and Information, JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin who spoke with our correspondent Wednesday, disclosed that the examination body will conduct the 2016 UTME between February and March.
He said: “JAMB has approved more centres to give Nigerians the best computer-based test. He explained that the CBT examination would hold in over 400 centres within and outside Nigeria.
Benjamin who vowed that JAMB will ensure that every CBT centre meets best global requirements, said, “this year, there are innovations to ensure candidates write under the conditions.’’
According to him, Some of the requirements given to the operators of the centres; are steady power supply, 200 computers, including Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS), accessible road, security and a waiting room.

Scrap JAMB, Don Tells FG

A University don, Professor John Okpako Enaowho, has called for the scrapping of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in order to avoid retrogression in education
Delivering his paper entitled “Formal planning development in Nigeria education: The paradox of autonomy and dependence” of which he delved extensively on funding challenges in the universities, the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Port-Harcourt said that universities can generate fund for self-sustenance.
While condemning the centralisation powers of NUC, the don stated that by scrapping JAMB, universities can admit as many students as possible to enable them generate money to operate independently.
He cited the United States of America which has eight of the best 10 universities in the world that have free hands to operate, adding that education should be removed from the shoulders of the Federal Government as it has so much at hand.