JAMB URGES CANDIDATES TO CHECK WEBSITE FOR REDISTRIBUTION.

JointAdmission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has urged the 2015 UTME candidates to check its website on Monday, August 3, for the list of universities they have been redistributed to.

Speaking, the Head of JAMB, Lagos, Dr. Beatrice Okorie said: “The 2015 UTME candidates are to check JAMB’s website on Monday, August 3, for the list and the universities they have been redistributed to.”

Okorie, who lamented the controversy that greeted the newadmission policy explained that the efforts were only geared towards helping candidates of oversubscribed institutions gain admission to other federal or state universities rather than wasting their scores.

“If we have not done that, many of these candidates wouldhave fallen prey of the universities’ money-making machine, that is, the post-UTME without securing admission even with their high scores,” she added.

Using the University of Lagos as an example, she noted that its carrying capacities cannot accommodate more than 5,000 students, and yet has about 32,000 candidates struggling for the slots.

She said: “What we have done is to look at those who havenot met with the cut-off points of UNILAG based on merit, catchment areas and the educationally less disadvantaged areas, but who have chances of securing admission in other federal and state universities and push them there to write post-UTME tests.”