A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday granted an application for the judicial review of the decision to stop some applicants from writing entrance examination into the University of Lagos for this year’s admission.
The applicants had headed for court alleging that the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, had issued a directive stopping them from participating in the UNILAG’s post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations scheduled for August 12 and 13, 2015.
The applicants, through their lawyer, Dr. Kayode Idowu, also accused Ojerinde of ordering the removal of their names from the list of applicants eligible to sit the UNILAG’s 2015 post-UTME and sending same to other institutions that they had not chosen.
They also alleged that though they scored above the JAMB’s publicly announced 180 cut-off mark, UNILAG had however refused to sell its post-UTME forms to them following the alleged directive by Ojerinde to send the names of all candidates with less than 250 marks to other institutions.
In their ex parte application moved before Justice Mohammed Idris on Monday morning, the applicants had prayed for the leave of court to apply for an order of mandamus compelling UNILAG to sell the post-UTME forms to them so they could sit the exams.
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They also sought the leave to apply for an order prohibiting the removal of their names from the list of candidates eligible to sit the 2015 UNILAG’s post-UTME scheduled for August 12 and 13.
The judge, after hearing their lawyer, Idowu, granted the applicants an order to seek judicial review of the respondents’ decision.
“It is in the interest of justice that the application is granted as prayed,” Idris held.
The court adjourned till August 10, 2015 for further proceedings.
Joined as respondents in the application are JAMB, its Registrar, Ojerinde, UNILAG and its Vice Chancellor, Prof Rahmon Bello. full details here[i][/i]http://www.tominigeria.com/2015/07/court-grants-students-application.html

The hearing is too close to the scheduled exam date, I hope the exam will be postponed if the candidates win the case.

When ll dis ppl realise it's not just abt writing d exam?... The school may not give them admission after d exams, wasted money/energy.