Private Universities To stop Writing Post-UTME

The Nigerian Federal Government has announced that it will revoke the license of private tertiary institutions that flout the rules governing the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) by covertly conducting the exercise.

The FG also added that it would sanction any institution that conduct written post-UTME and sack the vice chancellors of such schools.

Deputy Director, Press at the Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Bem Goong, who confirmed this in an interview, said the warning has become necessary as some institutions were still bent on going ahead with the written test, which the government has since abolished.

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Goong alleged that Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) was stopped from carrying out a post-JAMB examination over the weekend in the Garki area of the Federal Capital Territory.

According to the Goong, “One of the parents alerted me about what they were trying to do, and I in turn contacted the permanent secretary outright, who mandated me to convey the development to the National Universities Commission (NUC), and the executive secretary of the commission was duly briefed.

“On learning of this development, we promptly reacted and the exercise was stopped at that centre. By the time we got there, they had actually gone in and had even started the examination. So, we had to stop them and also informed them that if they choose to go ahead, they would face serious sanctions from the NUC. We, however, do not know whether they went ahead in other centres around the country, where the exercise was meant to take place.”

Goong warned that such act will not be tolerated.

“For federal universities, there are also sanctions, because the vice chancellors are public servants, and it could be worse for them because they would be seriously dealt with, and could even be sacked. So, it is very important that they comply with government’s directives as it concerns scrapping of written post-UTME.”

The Federal Government in June put an end to written post-UTME.