PRESS STATEMENT.
NANS CALLS FOR DECENTRALIZATION OF JAMB DIRECT ENTRY REGISTRATION, SAYS QUE NEEDLESS AND TIME WASTING, CONSOLES MAHASIN IDREES FAMILY.
The leadership of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) through the Vice President External Affairs Comrade Afeez Babatunde Akinteye calls for immediate decentralization of the ongoing 2023 Joint Admission and Matriculation (JAMB) direct entry registration across the country.
Akinteye in a press statement released Wednesday, 12th April, stressed that the new policy which permits applicant to register only in JAMB offices located at state capitals remain a mockery of the century and timed catastrophe.
“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 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 faraway from the state capital are left with the option of embarking on an unintentional journey to just to register for DE endangering their lives, the irony of this is one is not sure of instant registration on a particular day as those offices are overwhelmed with presence of multiple applicants” Akinteye said.
The Vice President further implores the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede to utilize ICT centres owned by public tertiary institutions and also contract ‘A’ level result verification experts to mount these centres for swift running of the registration exercise to meet contemporary realities.
