Let us ponder over this
1. In the 2017 UTME, a total of approximately 1,700,000 candidates took the exam.
2.
Out of the 1,700,000 candidates, the combined admission capacity of all
higher institutions in Nigeria does not exceed and could only admit
approximately 700,000 candidates
3. The above implies that 1,000000 candidates for the 2017 UTME were not admitted eventually.
4.
Most of these candidates who scored above the JAMB stipulated admission
cut off of 120 were still hopeful of securing admission into one
institution or the other up till 25th January, when JAMB ordered all
institutions to draw the curtain on their admission processes. Some
institutions even went beyond that date, meaning the hope of some
candidates were even still prolonged beyond 25th January.
5.
The implication is that almost one million (1,000000) candidates only
realized their hope of admission had been dashed by the last week in
January.
6.
This further implies that almost one million (1,000000) candidates who
are still interested in tertiary education started rushing to get
register for the 2018 UTME by early February.
7. Now, JAMB closed its registration portal for the UTME 2018 on the 11th of February.
8.
Logically, about one million candidates had only fourteen days to
register for the exam. It would be the 8th or 9th wonder of the modern
world if this can be achieved in Nigeria where UTME registration is
restricted to only JAMB handpicked CBT centers that could not register
700,000 candidates in two months.
9.
It is then reasonable to say that so many aspiring candidates were
denied the opportunity of registering as at the stipulated deadline.
Their only sin is that they are Nigerians and they are therefore
subjected to the whims and caprices of JAMB and his all-knowing and
all-powerful registrar.
10.
More pathetic, those of the unfortunate candidates who by a dint of
good luck were able to register before the deadline were asked to get
ready to take the exam by March 9th, barely a month after realizing they
wouldn't be admitted in the 2017 admission process. It is really a hell
to be a Nigerian. Would they have been preparing to write another UTME
in 2018 while still hoping to secure admission in the 2017 process? Is
it then fair to subject them to another round of failure after
collecting #6200 from their impoverished parents?
11. Let us examine the excuse given by JAMB why it cannot postpone the exam:
They want admission processes to be concluded by August.
The
question is ”Is three months after UTME ( June, July, and August) not
enough for the institutions to conclude admission processes, assuming
UTME is written in May?”
12.
In which other country of the world outside apart from Nigeria would
candidates go blindly into the admission procedure? Why can't
institutions disclose their admission criteria even before registration
for UTME in a given year so that candidates would know ab-initio whether
to choose a particular school/course or not. Do we even know the
institutions that would conduct post UTME this year and those who
wouldn't? Why is it so difficult for JAMB to compel the schools to
disclose their admission policies openly? Is it because JAMB is in
cohort with the tertiary institutions in fleecing the hapless candidates
and their poor parents of their hard earned money? I pity the Nigerian
candidates.
13.
Which other examination bodies forces candidates to pay heavily for
every mistake made during registration, even before the deadline? Why
is JAMB alongside its registrar bent on killing Nigerians financially on
the altar of making money for government. Is JAMB now Nigerian Custom
services or Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS). The Buhari
administration is trying hard to put food on people's table while JAMB
is hell bent on taking the food away. It's a shame that we can be this
inconsiderate in this country.
14.
If we decide to stay silent on this mind-numbing issues, simply because
it doesn't affect us today, who would cry for us and with us if it
affects us tomorrow?
15. A word is enough for the wise.
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