Only Senate, Academic Board of Varsities Can Admit – JAMB

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oyolede, yesterday in Kano, cleared the air on the processes for admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria for the 2016 academic year.

He said it is the Senate or Academic Board of each institution that has the prerogative of admitting candidates to their respective institutions, subject only to the existing national policy on admission into tertiary institutions.

Addressing participants at the first Technical Committee meeting on 2016 admissions to first choice institutions at the Bayero University, Kano, he explained that  JAMB’s responsibility was to coordinate the process and not to usurp the traditional responsibilities of the senates and academic boards.

“Consequently, no candidate must emanate from any other source (JAMB inclusive)  outside the list prepared and recommended by the institutions,” he stated.

He explained that JAMB has the right to reject candidates for non-compliance with the extant rules and regulations, but has no right to substitute or originate any names without prior concurrence of the institutions.

“The only difference between this year’s admission process and what has always been the practice is the policy that there should be no written post-UTME test. All other processes should be and would be as they have always been,” he said.

He tasked the participants, which included admission officers, registrars, directors and several stakeholders to act with focus on that which would be beneficial to the largest number of Nigerians.

“We must avoid adding to the burden of the masses of our people who rightly yearns for higher education as a veritable means of active participation in public life,” he stated.

He reiterated the fact that the National Policy on Admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria remains a 60:40(Science/Art) ratio for conventional universities, 80:20 Science/Art) ratio for  non-conventional, universities, 70:30 ratio (technology/non-technology) ratio for National Diploma awarding institutions.

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, in his remarks, applauded the resolution of the controversy surrounding this year’s admission into tertiary Institutions, saying there ought to be a difference between the regulators and implementors

“You  cannot regulate and implement. The two must not meet else you will be compromised,” Ganduje who was represented by his deputy, Professor Hafiz Abubakar said.



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Late Registration For 2015/2016 Harmattan Semester Begins Today

The Management of Obafemi Awolowo University has announced the commencement of the late registration of courses today, August 22.

"All students should please note the following:

1. All payment problems (RRR errors) emanating from the eportal have been
resolved.

2. Normal registration (without penalty) ends at 11:59pm, Friday 19th August, 2016.

3. Late registration begins on Monday, 22nd August and ends on 31st August, 2016.

More information to follow…" the portal reads.

UP NEPA: Electricity In Nigeria

With the rising rate of blackouts and incessant power failure, it is hard for one not to comment on this issue. One phrase any child truly Nigerian can not but say in the process of growing up is “Up NEPA”. As a matter of fact, it is a trademark of anybody truly Nigerian. NEPA stands for National Electric Power Authority and the phrase is used usually to express the joy that accompanies the restoration of power supply or as we often like to wrongly put it, “the bringing of light”. Anyone who has lived in this country would agree that the power supply in the Nigerian nation is nothing to be proud of and many individuals and organizations have commented and made several recommendations as regards how the deteriorating state of the power situation can be confronted but then again, talk is cheap.

Statistics have shown that Nigeria produces far below her consumption demand for electricity. According to Babatunde Raji Fashola led Ministry of Power, we produce about 2,464 Megawatts of power and at present we have a purported demand of about 12,800 Megawatts. Apparently, we are nowhere close to enjoying long term uninterrupted power supply anytime soon. Personally I think there are only two ways out this: We must try to reduce demand and at the same time consider other alternative sources of power. At present, Nigeria generates power majorly from Hydroelectric and some thermal and fossil fule power plants but it would be nothing but self deceit to slight the fact that Gasoline generators also take a huge chunk when accounting for power production in the country. In fact, there are notions that the not-so-serious attitude of the government to the improvement of power supply in the country is due to the strong politicking from stakeholders in the "Generator and Petrol" industry.

And there is also the Solar energy alternative which is rapidly gaining ground, however this option remains relatively expensive and in seasons like this when the sun doesn't shine so brightly, it may not be as reliable. So even with all these alternatives gaining ground, we may still have to shout Up NEPA a little longer...


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OAU Peeps News Agency Holds Screening Exercise

Panelists L-R Dosunmu Deborah, Olaoluwa Joseph, Fatoye Temitope, Ojelabi Jesujoba

OAU Peeps News Agency held her Screening exercise on Saturday, 20th August, 2016.

The exercise started at about 10am with a written test at AUD 2 and was followed thereafter by an oral interview at the ACJ Secretariat.

We hereby use this medium to inform applicants to be on the lookout for feedbacks.

Man O' War Club Member Beats Student, Club Bags Suspension

Following the drama that ensued on Wednesday, 17th August 2016 at the Fajuyi Hall of the Obafemi Awolowo University, where acting executives of the Hall were allegedly assaulted by a member of the Man O' War club of the institution, the executives of the hall have come out with a statement claiming that the club has been suspended indefinitely by the University Authorities.

The scuffle was said to have resulted from an attempt of the executives to help recover a  soccer ball that was mistakenly kicked into the fenced training ground of the club behind the Hall of Residence. The intervention however was said to have gone violent when a member of the Club attacked the Chairman of the Hall. The incident, which lasted for several minutes, also led to some students demanding that cancellation of the club, citing the recent unruly behaviour of some members of the club as reasons.

However, considering the alleged claim that the Man O' War Club of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife which has produced many distinguished personalities over the years has been placed on a suspension, several individuals and bodies have continued to condemn the act of the members of the club involved in the incident.

NYSC 2016 Batch B Mobilization: OAU Graduating Students Required To Validate JAMB Reg. No

Graduating students of Obafemi Awolowo University – those that completed their studies during the 2014/2015 session are required to validate their JAMB registration number.

According to our impeccable sources at the Division of Student Affairs (DSA), those that were admitted through the Predegree programme or Direct Entry are required to put down their details at the DSA office. The details collected from those affected include their name, JAMB registration number, Date of Birth and Matric number.

The facility to validate the JAMB registration number was said to be available on JAMB website, but a check by OAU Peeps News Agency correspondents shows that it is defunct. None of the affected students have been able to do the validation themselves. As at Wednesday, August 17, many of the graduating students were at the DSA office for the purpose and those that are far away from Ife were able to still put down their details by proxy.

On whether or not those that finished last session will be mobilized in the Batch B likely for this November; there are strong indications that some graduating students will be mobilized as our source confirmed that the Division is already on the list submitted by departments that are ready.

As of now, the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is yet to release an official time-table for the 2016 Batch B Youth Service.

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