Sunday 10 March 2013


Varsity Students Condemn N3, 000 JAMB Fee For Admission Letters

A new regime where the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) levies final year students before obtaining their admission letters to the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has been condemned by the affected students.
Our  reporter  learnt that the practice contravened what obtained in the past where admission letters were sent by JAMB to individual institutions free.
A final year student of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Mr. Oche Andrew, said he was shocked at the hint to pay a N3,000 fee to obtain JAMB admission letter. “I went to JAMB office as directed, and was asked to bring an introductory letter from my school and N3,000. This is a financial burden on us,” he said.
Another student, Fanwo Babatunde, who confirmed the practice, said, “I see it as another way of exploiting us.”
An information officer at JAMB, Mr. Febian Benjamin, said the new boss of the agency, Prof. Dibu Oderinde, introduced an automated services system where students are expected upon admission into institutions, obtain admission letters on the internet through scratch cards at the rate of N1,000.   
Benjamin said N3,000 fee is charged is to enable JAMB generate admission letters for students who did not obtain them or failed to promptly follow the normal process as well as delayed by  their schools. “But mind you, we don’t attend to students individually, it is through their schools,’’ he explained.
JAMB is saddled with the task of conducting entry examinations for candidates into tertiary institutions of learning in the country.

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