Public universities across the country have been issued May 15, 2021 to conclude admissions while private Universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education are to end theirs on June 15, 2021.

The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishag Oloyede, disclosed this at the Virtual Meeting with Heads of Tertiary Institutions in the country, Last Thursday.

Oloyede maintained that the deadlines remained sacrosanct and binding on all the nation’s institutions, adding that the board would not tolerate any breach of the decision reached at the meeting.

While noting that the meeting was aimed at knowing the level the various institutions had reached on the 2020/2021 admissions scale, Oloyede said the board would soon announce the date of commencement of sale of admission forms for the 2021/2022 academic year  and expressed hopes that the institutions would comply with the board for a hitch-free academic session.

In his words”, after a robust and insightful deliberations, members collectively agreed that all public universities are expected to finish their admissions on or before 15th May, 2021, while the private Universities and all IEIS, polytechnics and Colleges of Education will complete theirs at the agreed date of 15th June, 2021″.

The Registrar further urged all institutions to adhere strictly to all advisories issued to them on Inter/Intra University transfer, foreign inter-university, including fresh foreign candidates, change of programmes and institutions as well as other essential processes relating to admissions.

According to him, the directive became imperative to avoid unnecessary bickering that could impede on the future of innocent candidates and their subsequent mobilisation for the National Youth Service Corps(NYSC).

Meanwhile, the board has insisted that the National Identification Number (NIN)be used for the 2021Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

The Registrar stated that the introduction of the use of NIN was for security reasons as well as checkmating the excesses of examination malpractice.

“It is for security reasons. For us at our small level, it helps us to avoid impersonation but there is a bigger picture. There is insecurity in the country and we know that many of these problems are there because we have identification problem. We can’t identify every citizen, where he is and what he is doing. So, for this, we don’t even need the name of the candidate. We just want the NIN. We will then do the needful to pull the data of the candidate and the process will go on from there”, Oloyede said.

By: Lady Godknows Ogbulu