Chudichu:
My opinion is Jamb has just complicated issues, why not let students go to the universities of their choice and take their entrance exam. Private universities are to expensive for the average Nigerian, which automatically leaves the candidate with just one choice of a university. What if for any reason the candidate misses that university's requirements? Then it over for that year again?

suyamasta:
This a very stupid move from Jamb! Let the candidates decide for themselves!

candy:
Why force people to go to private universities in this hard times? Jamb has been bought over, for real. The private universities that used to beg people to come will now be flexing muscle for candidates. Mtchew.

MMMscam:



Senseless explanation. JAMB needs a total overhaul. Too many scholarly idîots are managing its affairs.

matrixme:
Let us be deceiving ourselves in this country. Either we choose 1 private University or 2 public, the truth is that there is no jobs out there to cater for the teeming youths.
Perhaps they will launch common entrance exams for babies entering crèche someday and it will be a big issue like this.
The government should learn how to set it's priorities right.

Lautechgossip:
The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed why it restricted candidates from choosing two public universities during the 2017 online registration.

Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, told PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday that the choice of public universities was restricted to one but candidates can choose as many colleges of education and polytechnics as they want.

The new measure by the board means that candidates may select a public university and a private university, but not two public universities.

The new update was revealed by JAMB via its official twitter handle @JambHQ on Friday.

It reads: “candidates can select NCE as their choice up to three times I.e 1st choice, 2nd choice and 3rd choice.

“But they are not allowed to select two public universities as choices. If candidates select a public university as their degree awarding choices, they are allowed to select a private university as another choice.”

Mr. Benjamin told PREMIUM TIMES that the Board took the restrictions because candidates hardly get admissions into their second and third choice universities.

“Yes we restricted the choice to one but candidates can choose as many colleges or polytechnics,” he said.

“We discovered it was of no use choosing a university as second choice when in actual sense they can’t even accommodate their first choices,” the JAMB official said.

Candidates have however cried foul over this new information as they lamented that the board is indirectly enforcing the choice of private university on them.

The candidates also lamented due to the huge sum paid as school fees in private universities stating that they are not affordable by most Nigerian parents.

“The fees nko? Jamb go help the students pay the fees for the private universities? You can’t force somebody to attend private universities,” a Twitter user, Robinson said.

http://www.kikiotolu.com/2017/02/jamb-explains-why-candidates-can-no.html

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RitzyPrince:
Going to school is a choice

eph12:

But try to get their point. Public schools don't admit 2nd choice so why bother wasting the option on them? Unless we have people that can prove they got admitted through 2nd choice at a public university.

Another thing is that they want the new federal and all state universities to have candidates applying straight to them as 1st choice so admission is probably more guaranteed. It's not fun when 500k jambites apply to the top federal schools yearly and only about a tenth is admitted. Doesn't make sense at all.

Mrslimblack:
Jamb is now the biggest scam to Nigerian students, can you imagine collecting #10,000 each, from almost every graduating student to regularize their results, and give them a new jamb number. This is as they said, will enable go for service, what nonsense