Post-UTME ban: FG orders refund of candidates' money

The Federal Gov­ernment has or­dered universities and polytechnics that have collected money from candidates on post- Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exami­nation (UTME) for the 2016/2017 academic session to immediately refund the money or face sanction.

The Minister of Edu­cation, Malam Adamu Adamu, who made this known in Abuja on Monday, said there was no going back on the recent ban of post-UT­ME, adding that any of such exercise conduct­ed this year under any guise stands annulled.

“The ban is with im­mediate effect and un­der no circumstance should any institution violate the directive”, the minister said.

Adamu explained that although he had made this known earlier, the emphasis had become neces-sary to ensure that no stakeholder is left in doubt as to gov­ernment’s position on the matter.

While decrying the situation where final year students in sec­ondary schools are subjected to too many examinations all in one year, the minister said the responsibil­ity for admission into public tertiary institu­tions lies solely with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and under no circumstance whatso­ever should anybody or institution take over that responsibility by proxy.