₦airaland Forum

I really feel sorry for this young lady, but need to clarify some of the points raised by people who have been commenting on the issue.

The mistake was entirely from the brilliant young lady and not from the school as most people have been insinuating - the computation of the score is done automatically by the Computer based on whatever information you input. I recall doing this for my daughter - first with her NECO result and then updating to the WAEC result when I saw that I could not input all the required minimum of 8 subjects using her NECO result, even though, that would have given her a better result.

That said, I met the Provost last year when my daughter also applied to study Medicine and I felt she had a good chance having performed well in both the UTME and Post UTME exams, and having excellent grades in her WAEC exams. To my utmost surprise, the Provost who I was meeting for the first time attended to us very pleasantly and requested that my daughter search for her name on the list - she was number 350 on the list - about 3500 people had applied to study Medicine in OAU. The Provost painstakingly explained to us the admission process as he has done in his clarification here and the options that were available to my daughter. So I am confident that his explanations are true and not necessarily biased against the young lady in question. I can vouch that he is a good man.

For me, I think the Medical and Dental Council needs to look into the quota being allocated to Medical schools. 100 is not enough for a school like OAU or any other school for that matter. With our teeming population of 150 million people, we need to be producing more than 100,000 Doctors annually to keep up with medical needs of the nation.

I am also a strong advocate of scrapping JAMB and allowing the Universities to manage their own admission process based solely on merit and not any other quota system.