FG dares Varsities: Conduct Post-UTME, face sanctions Orders refund of money for already conducted Exercise

 Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu,
yesterday, reiterated the Federal Government’s
ban on Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination, Post-UTME, conducted by tertiary
institutions for admission into universities and
other higher schools of learning in the country.
Adamu told journalists in Abuja that any institution
that violates the directive will be punished by the
Federal Government.
He said: “The ban is with immediate effect and
under no circumstance should any institution
violate the directive. Those who have already
advertised for the conduct of the Post-UTME
under any guise should stop the exercise
immediately.
“If any tertiary institution has already conducted
Post-UTME, such an exercise stands annulled and
money taken from candidates must be refunded
immediately.”
He said the emphasis had become necessary to
ensure that no stakeholder was left in doubt
about government’s position on the matter.
He said: “For the avoidance of doubt, any
educational institution, after secondary education,
is regarded as a tertiary institution. Therefore, all
tertiary institutions, by whatever name it is
called, after secondary education, must be
subjected to admission through JAMB.”
He added that universities were at liberty to
expel any student who failed to meet up with the
requirements for any degree enrolled for.
He said there was no empirical evidence to show
that since the inception of Post-UTME, universities
had been having better students, adding that
students were still being expelled annually for low
performance, even as they gained admission
through Post-UTME.
He said parents and guardians spend fortunes on
transportation, hotel accommodation, examination
fees and sundry costs, just for their wards to
gain admission into universities; while in some
cases, parents die in the process of travelling to
secure admission for their wards, a situation he
described as painful and avoidable.
Adamu directed the National Universities
Commission, NUC, and the appropriate departments
in the ministry to communicate this directive to
relevant agencies and institutions to ensure strict
compliance.