The registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, has said
that the examination body can no longer fund the conduct of Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME). The professor said this in his Abuja office
on Wednesday while he received a delegation of the senate committee on tertiary
institutions and Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFund).
He said
:
“The major challenge facing the board has to do with
funding; we take N5,000 from each candidate; we do not even have the money to
conduct the examination. Rather, we call on third party to do some of the
things and they only give some commission to JAMB, because we do not have
enough money to invest.
Conduct of examination across the country requires intensive
human participation; you will recruit invigilators and monitors and then it
costs so much money to set exam questions.
“The capital allocation is N1 billion; the release so far is
N45. 57million; the overhead cost is N50 million allocated, but N24.9 million
is what we have received so far. The N24.9 million given is not sufficient to
pay electricity bills because all the 36 states and zonal offices depend on
what comes from headquarters for their funding,”
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