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Nigerian Exams Body, JAMB Abandons ‘Direct Entry’ Students At Various Offices Nationwide, Endangers Live Of Applicants

FILE
May 11, 2023

This was revealed to SaharaReporters by some of the affected students, who decried how the whole process by JAMB had become “extremely frustrating due to the examination body's centralisation policy.”
 

Some Nigerian students have lamented about how they were stranded and abandoned at the various offices of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) where they were supposed to undertake the Direct Entry Registration Exercise.
This was revealed to SaharaReporters by some of the affected students, who decried how the whole process by JAMB had become “extremely frustrating due to the examination body's centralisation policy.”
The JAMB’s policy makes it impossible for those seeking admission through Direct Entry to register at any other centres other than JAMB State offices nationwide.
According to one of the students, the aftermath of using JAMB offices in different states measn that the crowd was huge and after seven attempts, he was still unable to complete his registration.
He stated that he moved to Lagos State because he believed the dreadful condition he experienced in Kwara State would be different. But, regrettably, things remained the same.
He said, “This is my seventh time in Jamb office and we kept on writing names down. I have tried so many times in Kwara; at a point, I came down to Lagos State and yet the same thing.”
“I think it's even worse here in Lagos. I stayed under the sun for over three hours yesterday and yet I still wasn't attended to, I'm up here again today, don't even know what they will do  yet,” another student lamented.
Another student who related his ordeal accused the examination board of always making excuses to sabotage the entire process.
“I have been going to the jamb office since March after the commencement of the registration and this is my 5th time here. They kept on coming with one excuses and the other. And the stress of coming every day is annoying. Aside the fact of coming, you still have to stand under the hot sun for hours. This is the stress we're going through just because we want to go to school in our great country,” she lamented.
Meanwhile, SaharaReporters earlier reported that the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) had called for the decentralisation of the ongoing 2023 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise across the country.
The group had asserted that the restriction placed on the registration of candidates to the offices of JAMB located in state capitals across the country is a mockery of the avalanche of ICT infrastructures available in the country.
NANS had made this known in a statement, noting that applicants who are far away from the state capital are left with the option of embarking on an unintentional journey just to register for Direct Entry registration.
The association had said such candidates endangered their lives, considering the level of insecurity and dilapidated roads across Nigeria.