EducationNewsNigeriaJAMB direct entry registration exercise should be decentralised – NANS

… As it mourns candidate’s death in accident

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has made a case for the decentralisation of the ongoing 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise across the country.

Comrade Afeez Babatunde Akinteye, the Vice President, External Affairs of NANS, in a statement issued on Thursday described the restriction placed on the registration of candidates to the offices of JAMB located in state capitals across the country as a mockery of the avalanche of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) infrastructure available in the country.

In the statement titled:  “NANS Calls For Decentralisation Of JAMB Direct Entry Registration, Queue Needless And Time Wasting”, Akinteye said, “We find it pertinent to extend our condolences to the family of Mahasin Idrees, a JAMB applicant, who lost her life on the 11th of April, following a ghastly motor accident while on her way back to Zaria after a Direct Entry registration exercise in Kaduna”.

“Considering the level of insecurity and dilapidated roads across Nigeria, applicants who are far away from the state capital are left with the option of embarking on an unintentional journey just to register for DE endangering their lives, the irony of this is that one is not sure of instant registration on a particular day as those offices are overwhelmed with the presence of multiple applicants, ” Akinteye said.

The Vice-President further implored the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede to utilise ICT centres owned by public tertiary institutions and also advised the Board to engage ‘A’ level result verification experts to mount the centres for the swift running of the registration exercise to meet contemporary realities.

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