The amendment of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) result validity period to four years in Nigeria has today Thursday 21st of July 2022 passed second reading in the house of representatives (Green Chamber), as sponsored by Mrs, Tolulope Sadipe of APC from Oyo state.
Mrs, Sadipe stressed that
many students who wrote JAMB examination in the country , passed with
flying colors , but unfortunately for them, they failed to secure admissions
and have their dreams shattered.
She said the painful
side of the hall story was that parents were made to take all the damages, due
to scanty validity of the JAMB results.
What appeared to be
the usual response of the Board was that ‘’ it was revenue generation for them’’
has been so irritating to most of the parents and wards who bitterly complained
over the issue.
According to her Nigerian students should not
bear the consequence of admission failure since the matriculation examination
body made a commitment with regard to revenue generation from selling of
application forms to students, saying international universities regard similar
examinations valid for at least five years.
I think this is
completely inequitable,there are a lot of financially handicap Nigerian parents
who find it difficult to consistently pay such amount of money when the
Nigerian economy has not been helping hand to them, said Mrs, Sadipe.
But on the contrary another
law maker Nkem Abonta from Abia state,objected that adjusting the validity of
JAMB result would have tendency of understating the aim of the entry exams.
Nkem disagreed with the examination Act
that seeks to standardize the mode of entry into Nigerian universities by way
of prolonging the validity, reckoning that it would only pave way to multiple
unwanted reactions across the country.
Some of the law makers
had advocated for the creation of a house committee to look in to the matter.
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