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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.

https://punchng.com/profile-ishaq-oloyede-the-arabic-professor-who-remitted-n30bn-to-fg-as-jamb-registrar/

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But APGA has management issues....a simple thing to settle with promise of appointment or contract

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Emotional photo shows an Afghan child being kept warm by US military uniform during an evacuation flight out of Kabul


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God bless Nigeria!

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Who is Amrullah Saleh : The Last Man Standing in Afghanistan Who Declared Himself Caretaker President after Kabul fall to Taliban


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Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's deposed first vice president, vowed Tuesday on Twitter to resist the Taliban while also declaring himself to be the country's caretaker president.


Afghanistan's ex-president Ashraf Ghani fled the country over the weekend as the Taliban advanced on Kabul and ultimately assumed power. Saleh said that according to the nation's 2004 constitution, he is now the acting president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan since Ghani is in exile outside of the country in an unknown location.

On Tuesday, Saleh tweeted that the constitution states that "in absence, escape, resignation or death of the President the FVP [first vice president] becomes the caretaker President. I am currently inside my country & am the legitimate caretaker President. Am reaching out to all leaders to secure their support & consensus."

Saleh previously served as Ghani's state minister for security reforms and as interior minister before joining Ghani's election team in 2019. The final election results from that year were delayed until February 2020, when Ghani was officially announced as the winner. He was sworn in the following month, with Saleh as his first vice president and Sarwar Danish as the second vice president.

On Tuesday, Saleh wrote that it was "futile to argue" with President Joe Biden. He said it was up to the people of Afghanistan to prove that their country "isn't Vietnam" and that the Taliban isn't "even remotely" like the Vietcong.

He said that "unlike US/NATO," the Afghan people haven't lost hope in their future. "Useless caveats are finished," his message continued. "JOIN THE RESISTANCE."

https://www.newsweek.com/ex-afghan-vp-amrullah-saleh-declares-resistance-taliban-i-am-caretaker-president-1620208

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Video: Afghanistan Before Russian Invasion in 1979

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Reactions to Martin Ødegaard Transfer to Arsenal FC from Real Madrid CF



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The Biden administration reportedly froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts Sunday, after the Taliban seized the capital city of Kabul this weekend, effectively toppling the country's government.

The Washington Post reported that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and personnel at the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control decided to freeze the accounts, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The move effectively blocks the Taliban from accessing the billions of dollars that were being stored in U.S. institutions, the Post reported.

"Any Central Bank assets the Afghan government have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban," an administration official told the newspaper in a statement.

The State Department was also reportedly part of conversations this weekend regarding the accounts, and White House officials were said to be watching the developments.

The Hill has reached out to the Treasury Department for more information.

The reported move by the administration is the first in what is expected to be a number of important decisions top officials will face as they grapple with the return of the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan this weekend following a withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, and relies heavily on American aid that is now in question.

The Afghan central bank had $9.4 billion in reserve assets as of April, according to the International Monetary Fund, which the Post noted is equivalent to about a third of the country's yearly economic output.

The majority of those reserves, however, are not kept in Afghanistan, a source told the Post. Billions of dollars are reportedly held in the U.S., but the exact amount is not known.

The Biden administration did not need new authority to freeze the reserves because the Taliban was already under sanctions from an executive order approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, former Obama administration official Adam Smith told the newspaper.

Smith served on the National Security Council and as a senior adviser to the director of the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control under the Obama administration.

The news comes after Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban and a key leader of the group, arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday for the first time in more than 10 years.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/568209-biden-administration-freezes-afghan-government-reserves-in-us-banks?amp

US President Joe Biden was Right on American Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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