The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recorded a 4.01 per cent drop in the applications received in 2018.

The NBS, in its JAMB Applications and Admitted Candidates by State and Gender within Faculty Data (2017-2018) posted on its website, stated that applications received in 2018 were 1.65 million as against the 1.72 million received in 2017.

This, it said, represented about 4.01 per cent drop in comparison to the total applications received in 2017.

Similarly, candidates admitted in 2018 were 549,763 as against the 566,719 admitted candidates in 2017.

The report said the fall in total admitted candidates in 2018 was about 2.99 per cent, compared to the total admitted candidates in 2017.

A further breakdown of the data showed that 902,176 applications received in 2018 were from males while 750,951 applications received were from female applicants.

The bureau said 952,436 applications received in 2017 were from males while the remaining 769,833 applications received were from female applicants.

In 2018, the bureau also said 302,183 male candidates were admitted as against 315,678 male candidates admitted in 2017 while 247,580 female candidates were admitted in 2018 as against 251,041 female candidates admitted in 2017.

Data for the report was supplied administratively by JAMB while it was verified and validated by NBS.

According to NBS, data in the report is restricted to test-based admissions and does not cover admissions not determined by official tests and examinations conducted by JAMB.

https://www.akelicious.net/2019/04/jamb-records-401-drop-in-applications.html

Drop in jamb registration but a spike in skull mining, pant stealing, internet fraud etc
I pity whoever is still in that country sha!

Dedicate my 1st to comment to my intelligent friend Techcapon and my runaway BF Martin0

From that statistic, it seems males are more than females these days... I have so many valid points and references to back that point aside JAMB submission. Mind you, education is scam in Nigeria

School Na scam

Noted

People don dey tire na, person go graduate.. work no go dey

oya check the number student that ran out of the country !!!

okay.

Them say school Na scam

chrysanthus07:
School Na scam

You have a point. after 5 or 4 years in High institutions is when you realise the waste of time for the ficate stuff. No real life applicable knowledge most of the time. It is well.

school na scam

Despite the reduction in the cost of registration and the growing Nigerian population. Something is wrong somewhere either poverty levels have grown beyong what its projected to be or prospective candidates have lost interest in education

Economy is bad... And wen all ur bros and aunty wey finish school dey sell okrika, or d guys dey drive keke or dey house morning till night 3 to 5 years after nysc... What's now the encouragement of going to school.

What's now the gain of those that have graduated.. Is only in Nigeria will go to school and study engineering and still be looking for Bridal makeup training..
Abeg they should start training primary school student how to invent something. This cramp and pour on paper have do us.

In Nigeria, school na scam with an engineering graduate teaching what should be the workload of two or more teachers while receiving 15k as salary. Guys prefer to learn skills for self employment now.

NBS should not be surprised that a corresponding increase is converging into Yahoo and street touting is going to reflect.

Nigeria school nah big scam

agylistic77:
What's now the gain of those that have graduated.. Is only in Nigeria will go to school and study engineering and still be looking for Bridal makeup training..
Abeg they should start training primary school student how to invent something. This cramp and pour on paper have do us.

baba said bridal makeup LMAO don't kill me

Mgbadike80:
In Nigeria, school na scam with an engineering graduate teaching what should be the workload of two or more teachers while receiving 15k as salary. Guys prefer to learn skills for self employment now.

My brother, it's very annoying.

OboOlora:
Drop in jamb registration but a spike in skull mining, pant stealing, internet fraud etc
I pity whoever is still in that country sha!

Dedicate my 1st to comment to my intelligent friend Techcapon and my runaway BF Martin0

At ur profile picture dats loud

People have gone to hustle.

Jamb makes money by ripping off
poor secondary school students.

This govt has no human face..

Open university

castrol180:
From that statistic, it seems males are more than females these days... I have so many valid points and references to back that point aside JAMB submission. Mind you, education is scam in Nigeria

Nope
Females are more than males..

MyVILLAGEpeople:


Nope
Females are more than males..

Argue with your village people

tripper003:

You have a point. after 5 or 4 years in High institutions is when you realise the waste of time for the ficate stuff. No real life applicable knowledge most of the time. It is well.

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School is not necessarily a scam. It's just that it doesn't make any sense to keep someone in school for 4-5 years to study non- professional courses. Two years should be more than enough to earn a degree in Humanities/Social sciences, Liberal Arts. Four years for Sociology? Please!

But the tuition is too enticing for the universities to face the facts.

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I hope it drops more..they are more concerned with making annual billions from already poor citizens than making sure the pple that graduated from university get good jobs. Jamb is a scam...we should have more skill acquisition schools based on ones interest n talent so they can be self employed even before graduation. .