The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede,has said the board would not consider any candidate without O’level or A level requirement this year.
JAMB registrar Oloyede insisted that only candidates who meet the O’ level and A’ level requirements and other criteria set by institutions would be offered admission in 2017/2018 session.
He spoke in Abuja, at a Training and Sensitization Forum on Central Admissions Processing System, CAPS, for admission offers, candidates and stakeholders. The registrar explained that candidates with higher scores in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, may not be admitted but could be eligible for admission consideration.
“Scoring higher than the cut-off mark does not guarantee admission but makes the candidate eligible for admission consideration. It is not UTME that qualifies the person. It is O level, A level that qualifies a person for admission, “he said.
“That is why you can go from here to UK, you can go to Ghana, Uganda, Republic of Benin, nobody ask you of your UTME, they ask for your O level because by law it is the school cert that qualifies you not JAMB. “We admit students when we do not know whether or not they are qualified. You will say you took JAMB, you had 300 later you will now come back and say he is not qualified. Why? No O level, no mathematics, no English when you have not considered the real issue which is: does he or she possess five credits?”

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In other words, its not scoring higher in jamb but also having Longleg/Connection.

Most Nigerians know that already. .....No connection. .No admission (in most cases)

Aminu212:
In other words, its not scoring higher in jamb but also having Longleg/Connection.

u are right.. I don't know when admission in Nigeria will only be based on merit.. �