as striking workers disrupt exam in BUK, OAU
Ahead of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination, UTME, about 211,000 candidates yesterday sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations across the country. This was as the striking non-academic staff at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) and Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, in Osun State, disrupted the examinations, saying until the Federal Government addressed the contentious issues, there would be no peace on university campuses nationwide.
After a tour of three of the Computer Based Test (CBT) centres including Veritas University, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede explained that if they were more CBT centres in locations selected by the candidates, the number of those to sit for the preparatory examination would have been more than 257, 000. “For the mock, we have over 257,000 candidates.
Unfortunately, we have been able to place only 211,000 and we have apologised to others. Not that we cannot have more than that but because of where the candidates choose because if you are to run the mock exam like that, it will take three days.
“There is no even spread of centres in places like Akwa Ibom State and that is why we are appealing to good Nigerians to establish CBT centres. It is very profitable,” he said.Oloyede disclosed that out of the 602 centres, where the examinations were being held nationwide, only seven centres including Obafemi Awolowo University and Bayero University, Kano, encountered some challenges.
As at the time he was addressing newsmen, an ultimatum of an hour had been issued to the affected centres to fix the problem or risk losing JAMB’s accreditation as CBT centres. “We also have one centre in Plateau and Taraba and there is crash of laptops in OOU. But so far, so good; out of the 602 centres we have problems largely in six or seven centres and we are monitoring what is happening.
“We are relocating candidates in centres we have problems. Like last year, it happened in LAUTECH and for us, LAUTECH is not allowed to take our exam as long I remain the registrar of JAMB. So, if you want to kill your university because you have internal problem, then go ahead and kill it.
At the Bayero University, Kano (BUK), about 220 candidates, who were billed to sit the exam at the institution’s School of Continuing Education, were barred from gaining entrance to the centre over the unresolved issues with the Federal Government.
The workers, who had as early as 7am blocked the institute’s gate, insisted that no examination would be conducted at the centre, which serves as the university’s computer-based examination centre. Efforts of the university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello, to intervene on the matter proved abortive as the workers insisted that no examination would hold at the centre. Thus, around 1pm, the candidates were asked to go without sitting the examination.
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