tesimoor:
By Kunle Akogun

There is no doubt that since his appointment as the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) five years ago, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede has remained one of the most visible poster boys of President Muhammadu Buhari’s war against corruption. The reason is simple: The Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin has so sanitised the operations of the tertiary institutions’ admission body in five years that it seems that the 44-years old Board had never been in any tangible operational existence before 2016!

For this singular reason, his reappointment for another term of five years, announced on Friday, 20th August, did not really come as a surprise to many watchers of the great revolution going on in JAMB since August 1, 2016. Indeed, when his first tenure ended on July 31st, 2021, not a few discerning Nigerians openly canvassed his reappointment into the same office, if only to allow him consolidate on the unprecedented socio-economic revolution he initiated and sustained not only in JAMB but in any Nigerian public institution. For, which sane captain changes a winning team?

In one of such altruistic advocacies, a former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola, said that Prof. Oloyede’s first term in office has “been marked by unprecedented success”, having elevated the quality of university education in Nigeria by ensuring improved quality of candidates for admission into the university system. Prof. Okebukola added that with 82 innovations in JAMB, Prof. Oloyede should be allowed to consolidate the gains of the last five years and see to the completion of his ongoing programmes and projects.

It is a thing of personal joy for those of us who know this erudite scholar intimately that Prof. Oloyede did not disappoint his teeming admirers since his appointment. Rather, he shamed the vociferous opposition to his well-merited appointment. Not only did he institute an enhanced welfare scheme for JAMB staff that greatly boosted their morale, Prof. Oloyede’s messianic tenure substantially restored the sanctity of the Board’s main mandate: the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). And, as evident in all the five admission exercises he superintended, JAMB’s technology considerably improved, with high level of transparency and advanced networking. The scrapping of the traditional scratch card system for checking results is also another positive rebellion by this audacious JAMB helmsman. And the drastic reduction in the application fees is a serious relief to sundry admission seekers and their parents and guardians.

But by far the most remarkable feat by any non-revenue yielding MDA in the country is the consistent remittance by Prof. Oloyede’s JAMB of whopping sums of money in billions of naira to the Federal Government coffers in each of the last five years. This is indeed praise-worthy, especially in a country where even some MDAs that were specifically and originally established to collect revenue for the government often turn round to ask the same government for extra-budgetary bail-outs to supplement their overheads!

By this feat, Prof. Oloyede merely lived up to his well-known credentials of administrative acumen, financial discipline and legendary transparency in public service. An erudite Professor of Islamic Jurisprudence and the first ever Unilorin graduate to make a first class degree in the institution, Oloyede became a household name during his tenure as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, having largely succeeded in turning the second generation University into a world class institution. This, he achieved by dint of hard work, resilience, consistency, tenacity of purpose and unparalleled team spirit.

Indeed, Prof. Oloyede’s trajectory has been a study in service excellence, administrative acumen, religious commitment to the achievement of set goals, and unapologetic insistence on fairness for all. This much has been duly acknowledged by dispassionate watchers of his profile since he emerged the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin in 2007, especially with his sterling track records of achievements.

It’s no surprise, therefore, that many well-meaning Nigerians continue to harp on the need for President Muhammadu Buhari to renew the appointment of this modern Midas to consolidate the good job he has been doing in JAMB in the past five years. After all, he is statutorily entitled to two terms of five years each, subject to the wish of the President. At a point, however, there were reports that Prof. Oloyede appeared not to be too keen on doing a second term, as he was said to have insisted that he had made his mark and would like to yield the ground for other persons to be given the opportunity to serve the nation at the JAMB level. The veracity of this report could be gleaned from the swiftness with which he handed over the Registrar’s baton, without any prompting whatsoever from any quarters, to the available most senior Director at the nick of the expiration of his FIRST term! The common sit-tight scheming among Nigerian public officials does not seem to hold any attraction for him!

His reappointment is, therefore, a very commendable masterstroke by the President. For, Nigeria still needs the services of this highly cerebral and effective public officer for another five years at JAMB to personally nurse the several ongoing innovations, which he initiated in the organisation to irrevocable and unabortable fruition. For instance, such initiatives as the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) for automation of admission process; the institution of Equal Opportunity Group for the conduct of the Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for Blind Candidates; the expansion of the capacities of CBT centres for standardization purposes; the introduction of E-Ticketing (for Complaints; the introduction of the Integrated Brochure and Syllabus System (IBASS) for prompt delivery of admissions requirements; the use of Biometric Authentication to confirm validity of registration, the introduction of E-slip printing; the introduction of management dashboard to monitor registration and admission exercise real time; the use of CCTV cameras in all CBT centres to monitor the examination and registration process real time; and exemplary funds management; as well as prudent and judicious use of JAMB’s financial resources, all need to be consolidated upon in order to avoid the incidence of the well-known Nigerian syndrome of policy summersault and programme discontinuity that often characterize the advent of any new administration in this clime.

*Kunle Akogun is the Director of Corporate Affairs, University of Ilorin, Nigeria*

Congrats let's test him with presidency

DiscoB40:
Jamb wey de lick even before exam day.

My Profile get your attention

Leak. This might be one of the reasons why you don't like the man's achievements I guess.

joyandfaith:


JAMB taliban. Very wicked man!

Wicked? For setting the standard we all clamor for in the university admission process? Or for remitting more than some moribund revenue-generating agencies in Nigeria? Or for making the admission process so difficult for candidates that do not merit it?

odutolasodiq:
Wicked? For setting the standard we all clamor for in the university admission process? Or for remitting more than some moribund revenue-generating agencies in Nigeria? Or for making the admission process so difficult for candidates that do not merit it?

Dibu ojerinde transformed Jamb.
Can you please list any new innovation oloyede has introduced in JAMB?

How much is JAMB form, I hope it's now free? If not, all these stories are balderdash and the reappointment can only happen under a dullard

joyandfaith:



Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.-
Charles Simmons

See my signature

big fools spotted . generation of failed Nigerians that claim to write jamb 50 years ago and throw the country in a mess by continually want the cheating /corrupt system to flourish tell your pikin the cheating days in jamb is over. Even if una say the man na boko haram

ayoncox:


It is unfortunate that we call tyranny good governance.
The same man creating stiffening system that fustrates young kids from gaining admission through his fanaticism is called messiah.
I laugh in Swahili

Most people hailing are either apc e-rat or jihadist.
The man is wicked.
It was dibu that reformed jamb. Oloyede introduces jihad.

DiscoB40:
Jamb wey de lick even before exam day.

My Profile get your attention

You wrote lick instead of leak,I am sure you are part of the jamb failing youth.

Educationalserv:
big fools spotted . generation of failed Nigerians that claim to write jamb 50 years ago and throw the country in a mess by continually want the cheating /corrupt system to flourish tell your pikin the cheating days in jamb is over. Even if una say the man na boko haram

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.-
Charles Simmons

See my signature

odutolasodiq:
Wicked? For setting the standard we all clamor for in the university admission process? Or for remitting more than some moribund revenue-generating agencies in Nigeria? Or for making the admission process so difficult for candidates that do not merit it?

why reply a exam cheat sympathizer .he pained his daughter keep banging jamb exam since no expo. Like parent like child.

Debo Ojerinde was also showered accolades until he was accused of massive corruption. Let's see if Oloyede wouldn't toe his paths. Any public figure hailed in Nigeria for their achievements always end up being found culpable of one vice or the other. I remember Abba Kyari, the super cop

The man really tried in terms of revenue generation for people in government to loot..

I am tired of our people. They like corruption, dubious attitude, stealing if they are getting benefited. They want great country but don't want to play their part. Thieves disguising as good Citizen.

siraj1402:
I wonder what type of government Nigerian really want if anyone is still not pleased with Oloyede's way of managing JAMB.

This jamb man is completing with federal inland revenue, costom, Nigeria port Authority. This administration is milking us dry everyday

Educationalserv:
u need ur head wiped by jamb registrar to reset it.

U sound like a pro comedian!
Are you one??

He has always been a man of equity, tranquility, probity, integrity and utmost fairness.
He reported the weekly financial statement for unilorin in the bulletin.
I was astonished when he reported a revenue of a student ID card that was sold for NGN 500 in the income and expenditure report for a particular week.
Very transparent a man.
We pray for more people like him to captain the ship of this nation.

sammirano:
Wicked terrorist That man is worse than buhari.

cos him don cona all the loopholes. I never knew this man was a muslim.no matter how bad a group of people is, a well prominent and upright individual will still sprout out.

Some fools and unserious students will still complain about his administration.

Very useless set of Nigerians.

JAMB taliban. Very wicked man!Many folks haven't yes him. lifestyle is more than JAMB.

joyandfaith:


Dibu ojerinde transformed Jamb.
Can you please list any new innovation oloyede has introduced in JAMB?

one thing is to have innovation another is to have improvement on it.no wonder you can no longer carry out malpractices and your usual machinery. kudos oloyede

Okhuadams:
Congrats let's test him with presidency

You might be right. Go and see what the man did too at National Mosque, Abuja. Those collecting Friday offerings had been under declaring offerings for years before Oloyede joined them. When this man joined and headed the committee of the mosque, he changed the offerings box unannounced one Friday afternoon to a stronger tamper-proof box. Since that time, the mosque has been declaring hundreds of thousands every Friday instead of a few thousands the committee has been declaring for years.
Nigerians need tough and upright leaders for things to be good again. If not, nothing good will happen in this country.

ayoncox:


It is unfortunate that we call tyranny good governance.
The same man creating stiffening system that fustrates young kids from gaining admission through his fanaticism is called messiah.
I laugh in Swahili

. What he has done a High school certificate holder in UK, Europe, Canada or US will even do better. He was there to generate revenue to FG and make lives miserable and difficult for the parents of jambite. Can some tell me just one advantage of JAMB? Useless country full of vision less and vagabond leaders.

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joyandfaith:


JAMB taliban. Very wicked man!
Many people don't know him. Life is more than JAMB.

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IPIG terrorist.

OLORIPAPA:
Lol

What is lol bro...?

ayoncox:


It is unfortunate that we call tyranny good governance.
The same man creating stiffening system that fustrates young kids from gaining admission through his fanaticism is called messiah.
I laugh in Swahili

Your maggot-ridden, stink, dirty and mind full of prejudice wouldn't let you admit the truth.
How have you been successfully run that small office or portfolio you assigned ?
How have you been Manning your simple immediate family?
Do you think it takes nothing to shoulder an affair without bottleneck ?

nameo:
I have heard great things about this man like generating and returning about 40bn to the federation account when before he came Jamb had not returned up to 1bn total to the Federation account. Also, his tenure as VC Uniilorin.

I hope these are true.

If so, he is highly regarded by me and i would not forget his name again

It's cos you are a young boy.
Unilorin had the fastest academic calendar in the whole country, even faster than most private universities. Oloyede was involved

Those parents or any student who are typing rubbish about the Man on this thread are corrupt in mind and heart. We all wants a clean Nigeria free from corruption but we always find it difficult to play our own part. Many who are saying the Man is a Taliban are pained because he denied them their illegal ways of outsmarting the system.
You better get prepared, go and read ahead or else you will be hosting jamb every damn year.
Please don't quote me. I'm already a Graduate

joyandfaith:


JAMB taliban. Very wicked man!
Many people don't know him. Life is more than JAMB.

Very wicked? Tell us more...

ayoncox:


It is unfortunate that we call tyranny good governance.
The same man creating stiffening system that fustrates young kids from gaining admission through his fanaticism is called messiah.
I laugh in Swahili

...recommend someone that does it better.

nameo:
I have heard great things about this man like generating and returning about 40bn to the federation account when before he came Jamb had not returned up to 1bn total to the Federation account. Also, his tenure as VC Uniilorin.

I hope these are true.

If so, he is highly regarded by me and i would not forget his name again

Very very true