JAMB to re-post
candidates with lower scores to other universities
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),
has said it will re-post candidate who wrote the UTME and scored above 180 but
whose scores are less than cutoff marks of their respective universities
to a particular institution,This news was made available in
statement signed by the Head of Media and Publicity of the board, “Fabian
Benjamin, that was made available to the public on Sunday in Lagos.
It said that the recent admission policy which occur at
the University of Lagos was aimed at ranking the Nigerian Universities
admit only the top best as was done globally..On Wednesday, July 22, it was on the page of the newspaper
that some of the candidate’s parents and guidance were standing to protest at
the University of Lagos gate over the high cutoff marks for the
2015/2016 post-UTME screening set by the institution.
Over the development that was taken by JAMB board has
redistributed the other candidates with cutoff marks less than what their
respective first choice institution requested for to attend the post-UTME
screening. “(The board), Also advice parent of the affected
candidates to check its website from Friday, July 31 2015 for their names and
institutions they are placed in for the post – UTME,”