PROFILE: Ishaq Oloyede, the Arabic professor who remitted N30bn to FG as JAMB registrar

Despite the barrage of criticisms against some of the choices of his appointees, the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), appointed a few round pegs in round holes, one of whom is 66-year-old Is-haq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence who brought unprecedented dynamism to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar on August 6, 2016.

Oloyede was on Friday reappointed by the President for another five-year term as registrar of JAMB, the agency established by the government in 1978 “to conduct matriculation examinations for entry into all universities polytechnics and colleges of education in the country and to place suitably qualified candidates in the available places in these institutions”.

During his first term, Oloyede, amongst other reforms, was noted to have significantly increased the remittances of JAMB to the Federal Government.

A top official at the Board told our correspondent that though “JAMB is not a revenue-generating agency but under Prof Ishaq Oloyede in the last five years, JAMB remitted over N30bn to the Federal Government purse, an amount far above what was generated by the Board in its 40 years of being, before Oloyede came on board.

“This was despite the fact that he reduced the fee for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination forms from N5,000 to N3,500 in 2017.”

“JAMB had remitted a total of N50m to the Federal Government between 1978 and 2016 before Oloyede,” the source said.

The official, who does not want to be mentioned because he was not permitted to speak on the matter, also said Oloyede transformed JAMB through the introduction of technology.

He introduced technology and blocked leakages and avenues for corrupt officials to siphon money from the Board,” the official added.

Notably, JAMB’s annual remittances to the Federal Government under Oloyede rival the yearly profit before tax of some banks. The growing figures of the Board have ranked it in the league of top government agencies with high remittances. They include the Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Nigerian Customs Service, the Department of Petroleum Resources, amongst others.

In his early months in office, the nation had been entertained with tales of snakes swallowing millions of naira in JAMB offices and associated corruption charges against officials of the Board.

A former JAMB Registrar, Prof Adedibu Ojerinde, has been in court over an 18-count bordering on alleged fraud and diversion of public funds to the tune of N5.2 billion.

In an interview in early 2019, Oloyede had complained about “expanded throats” in JAMB, adding that he found a way to put such people aside so they won’t distract him.

I find a way to put such people aside. We sack about 10 to 15 people in a year. We don’t stop at sacking them, we take them to court and insist on their prosecution because we have the facts before us,” he had said.

Oloyede had also said some of his critics complained that he returns so much money to the government asking whether he is “a money-making machine”.

“I did not increase the charges and I thank the Federal Government for reducing the charges. We charge the lowest fee anywhere in the world. President Buhari was kind enough to say slash the fee from N5,000 to N3,500 and even with that, we will still make a substantial return because we are not stealing their money,” the don had stated.

He had also expressed his thoughts regarding making mammoth remittances to the government when the money can be used to directly develop the educational sector.

“It isn’t the best though where you have billions of naira and you return it back to the government. It is not the best. But that is the legal framework we have to work with. A better stage can be to go to similar institutions around the world where they fund themselves and extend it (the money) to tertiary institutions directly by identifying their needs and supporting them,” Oloyede had said.

However, it has not been all garlands and praises for Oloyede as he had also been criticised severely and several times over the number of students who gain admission yearly. Critics have argued that the Board continues to rake in money for the government while some applicants continue to sit for the exam more than three times before eventually gaining admission into the tertiary institution of their choice.

But Oloyede had maintained that it was important for applicants to study well to pass the UTME before being admitted into any tertiary institution.

Married and blessed with children and grandchildren, Oloyede is a Doctoral Graduate in Islamics. He is a fellow of the Islamic Academy of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow, Academy of Entrepreneurship; Fellow All Nigerian Institute Management; Fellow Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Fellow Association of Islamic Religious Studies among others.

He has served on the board of many university organisations. He was the Chairman, Committee of Directors of Academic Planning in Nigerian Universities – 2002 to 2004; He was the President, Association of African Universities. He served on the board of Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2010 to 2012 and International Association of Universities, 2008 to 2012.

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“JAMB had remitted a total of N50m to the Federal Government between 1978 and 2016 before Oloyede,” the source said.

Years of locust and caterpillars...


PDP finished this country. Very Corrupt.


Anybody supporting that corrupt, terrorist, destiny killing PDP, should have his head examined

May God bless him

I am most concerned now that the money has been post-looted.

The military regime and pdp looted the destiny 50m to 30b, koni dafun awon ppl yi o

Where's the money?

blamingthedevil:


Years of locust and caterpillars...


PDP finished this country. Very Corrupt

PDP finished Nigeria, but APC finished Nigeria completely.

This are the kind of people we shld put our money intrust to.

Una don start abi ?

Tommorrow now language go change.

Abba kyari part 2 go soon take place.

Make i dey eat my popcorn dey ignore zombie comments for dis mata

Is Jamb supposed to be a revenue generating agency?
Nigerians, stop celebrating stupidity.

When He has turned examination body to NNPC what do you expect

Okay

blamingthedevil:


Years of locust and caterpillars...


PDP finished this country. Very Corrupt.


Anybody supporting that corrupt, terrorist, destiny killing PDP, should have his head examined

Anybody supporting Buhari should his head checked

Good man

unbitchable:
Is Jamb supposed to be a revenue generating agency?
Nigerians, stop celebrating stupidity.

I guess it would have been better if he was stealing the money like his predecessors did.

Dibu Ojerinde looted a lot of money when he was JAMB Registrar.


His son Olumide once used his father's Ill gotten money to vie for Federal House of Rep and he won, now FG is seizing everything Dibu, his Schools, Radio Station and other properties have been seized or under litigation, by positioening his son to be a government backed looter (Lawmaker) he will surely get all those things back infact his son is doing more than that for him.

Even bad people eat the fruit of their after making life difficult for others.
Who are we to judge?







However Oloyede should slow things down, he should know that JAMB result no be Yankee visa

I doff my hair for this Prof.Though a muslim, he is more refined than the MURIC terrorist.His tenure @ JAMB is an encouragement.Dont know if he is or is related to the one time VC of Uni.of Ilorin?

Maxymilliano:
When He has turned examination body to NNPC what do you expect

Opposition politics is not madness. He is charging less than what PDP charged.
He is paying workers salary from his revenue and still remitting.
Not everything you put mouth Cho cho

Racoon:
I doff my hair for this Prof.Though a muslim, he is more refined than the MURIC. His tenure @ JAMB is an encouragement.Dont know if he is related to the one time VC of Uni.of Ilori

He is a former VC of Unilorin

chatinent:
I am must concerned now that the money has been post-looted.

Hatred!

blamingthedevil:


Years of locust and caterpillars...


PDP finished this country. Very Corrupt.


Anybody supporting that corrupt, terrorist, destiny killing PDP, should have his head examined

That Clown above you is one of them. He's Nairaland number 2 PDP Dundee, only Second to RATcoon abi na Racoon?

When he was appointed, wailers were running their smelling mouths, saying Buhari wants to Islamize JAMB

I still can't imagine how a Fed. Agency went from a paltry remittance of 50m yearly for over two decades to 30billion in just few years

Corruption has really crippled lots of our MDAs.

Congrats again to Prof. We need more like him to head our civil service/nation.

Maximum respect to Prof you earned your second tenure in all ramifications. Kudos!