JAMB AND BATTLES AGAINST EDUCATION
eaki<script dataad-client="c.g.js"></script>ûng News: Senats INEC commissioner Columnists JAMB and the battles against education By Adesope Lydia 13 July 2021 | 1:30 JAMB Last week, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, revealed the success and failure rates from the recently concluded UTME, which is the only means of securing admission into higher institutions in Nigeria. For the year 2021, over 1.3 million candidates registered for the examination which began on June 19 and ended on July 3 in over 700 accredited Computer Based Test (CTB) centres nationwide. According to Prof Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar, only 0.06 per cent representing about 803 of this number scored above 300 marks. Reproduced below are the scary statistics from the recent examination, from the Registrar, through news coverage monitored on the National Television Authority. “He noted that statistics of the results in the last four years, 2018 for exa