The Federal Government at long last confirmed the matchless quality of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) directed Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by scrapping the Post-UMTE test conducted by the tertiary institutions.

The decision reported by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu at the June 2 meeting called by JAMB to alter cut-off focuses for UTME, clarified that the examination body has done a considerable measure and now has the validity that suggests that the outcome from its placement test ought to be worthy to all. This advancement is an affirmation that JAMB's Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde hit the nail on the head from the beginning.

Professor Dibu and the administration group at JAMB should however not be quieted by the organization's arrangement of accomplishment into believing that the individuals who advantage under the past course of action would not set up some type of resistance.

With more than one million applicants looking for tertiary establishment confirmations every year, the Post-UMTE test was an over N2billion yearly business since expecting understudies pay N3000 each on the normal.

The traps up the sleeves of the individuals who need to keep winning this unlawful income are numerous: they will turn to mudslinging and coercion and in addition attempt to repackage their blackmail under new names and procedures like UMTE result check fees.

Since JAMB has the full sponsorship of its guardian service and has the order over entrance into tertiary foundations, Professor Ojerinde must catch up by observing consistence with the scrap of Post-UMTE test and guarantee the blackmail is not reintroduced under another name.

The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu must on his part give the essential sponsorship to JAMB as the issue of utilizing the now prohibited test had been a disputable one.

Parents and guardians in addition to the candidates themselves have roles to play too. They must appreciate the efforts that JAMB has made in their interest – many promising youths had died in road accidents in the course of traveling to write the needless test. These stakeholders must therefore be willing to tell on any school that secretly tries to conduct any kind of test for the purposes of admission.

Additionally of concern are Vice-Chancellors, Rectors, Provost, Registrars. They went to the June 2 meeting and were accounted for to have supported the choice on the comprehension and acknowledgment of the advancement that JAMB.

They must therefore resist the admission syndicates in their various institutions that are likely to attempt finding new ways of fleecing prospective students. Their consenting to the end of Post-UMTE is an endorsement of CBT, which is clearly the way to go.

Their endorsement of CBT did now however come as a surprise given the magnitude of efforts that the board has made in response to the teething problems encountered when it held the first all-CBT examination. Agreed, some of the hitches were blown out of proportion ostensibly to further the interest of owners of ‘miracle’ examination centres, whose lazy clients can no longer cheat.

There were however genuine glitches that should not reoccur in the next examination going by the assurances given by JAMB and the actions it has taken to date since the last examination.

The is the reason the call by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye,for the central government to give satisfactory financing to JAMB to permit it enhance CBT is one that numerous Nigerians ought to resound.

Originating from a government official, the call demonstrated that Nigerians are at last making up for lost time with the prescience of Professor Ojerinde.

Hopefully, additional hitches flagged by the mock examination would be resolved alongside the issues recorded from the last CBT examination so that its next outing would be a resounding success.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board remains the leveler that ensures our best brains do not lose out on tertiary institution placement because they are not children of moneybags.

During an era when the country is ravenous for changes that work, JAMB has turned out to be a benchmark that differenciates other agencies.

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This is Good. But then, what's next? Do I sit at home and wait to be notified of any admission offered to me?