Stakeholders have questioned the continued funding of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) as well as its role in the entire education sector as data released by the office of the registrar puts its three-year revenue figure at N18.4 billion.
JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said he had, since assumption of office in 2016, remitted N7.8 billion, N5.6 billion and N5 billion for 2017, 2018 and 2019 as proceeds from the sale of forms to candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
During this period, about 4.9 million candidates obtained forms for the examination. Specifically, 1, 736,571 candidates bought application forms in 2017; 1,662,762 in 2018; and 1.6 million in 2019.The candidates, who sat for the UMTE between 2017 and 2018, paid N5, 000 each as a registration fee, but following public outcry on the cost, the Federal Government reduced it to N3, 500 this year.
It was learnt that JAMB collected an average of over N2 billion from the Federal Government each year within the three-year period. Before Oloyede came on board, the examination body under the headship of Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, had remitted N50 million into government’s coffers between 2010 and 2016. Read more