Scrapping of post-UTME: Varsities to screen candidates on oral, essay before admission

Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola, has said that Nigerian universities deviated from the initial agreement NUC had with Vice-Chancellors in 2004 when it introduced post-UTME to screen candidates on oral interview and written essay.

He also said out the present position as revealed to him by the Vice-Chancellors, after their meeting with Malam Adamu Adamu last Thursday, was that the Minister had directed that universities should no longer conduct the same type of test as JAMB, but should be free to further subject candidates to screening to meet their local peculiarities.

Okebukola, who spoke exclusively with Vanguard, lamented that universities had since deviated from the initial agreement of post-UTME disclosed that the 2004 model had a screening component which was agreed with all vice-chancellors to be through oral interview and essay which JAMB assessment did not cover.

NYSC Batch 'A' stream II Orientation begins on June 13

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Abuja on Monday said the Batch 'A' stream II Orientation Course would commence on Monday, June 13, and end on Wednesday, June 29.

The information is contained in a statement signed by the NYSC Director of Press, Mrs Bose Aderibigbe.

The statement urged prospective corps members to log on to the NYSC portal to commence printing of call-up letters from Tuesday, June 7, by 2p.m. as the earlier printed call-up letters were invalid.