The Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede has disclosed that the Board in 2017 generated N12 billion as income and remitted N7.8 billion to the Federal Government after deducting various expenses. Prof Oloyede made this known on Monday during a press briefing in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.
He explained that the board was able to remit the huge amount of money to the Federal Government because it blocked loopholes and checked wastages.
He further noted that though JAMB was not a money-generating agency, it was also not a money-wasting establishment.
On the cut-off mark controversy, he said the stipulated 120 cut-off mark for the 2017/2018 admission was merely a benchmark for admission of candidates and not a score for automatic admission.
“There have been instances where candidates with poorer scores were dropped to less competitive courses but later crossed to the more competitive ones and emerged as the best during their graduation, in those courses.
“Some affiliated institutions were urging reduction of cut-off marks adopted by their parent universities. The affiliates had approached the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, to ask JAMB to prevail on the universities to reduce the cut-off marks. The affiliates were complaining that they were finding it difficult to get candidates to admit with the cut-off marks.
“The board had also devised means to check unscrupulous activities of candidates who do multiple registrations by deliberately writing their names wrongly with the intention to claim the result of the one with the highest score and thereafter demand correction of the name claiming that the fault is not theirs.
“Another technological means was devised to check cyber cafe operators from exploiting candidates who register for the UTME in their cafes while the Central Admission Processing System was introduced to ease processes of admission of qualified candidates.”
