Is-haq Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB, has said that the board cannot
adequately fund the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME).
The professor said this in his Abuja office on Wednesday while he
received a delegation of the senate committee on tertiary institutions
and Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFund).
He said: “The major challenge facing the board has to do with
funding; we take N5,000 from each candidate; we do not even have the
money to conduct the examination.
“Rather, we call on third party to do some of the things and they
only give some commission to JAMB, because we do not have enough money
to invest.
“Conduct of examination across the country requires intensive human
participation; you will recruit invigilators and monitors and then it
costs so much money to set exam questions.
“The capital allocation is N1 billion; the release so far is N45.
57million; the overhead cost is N50 million allocated, but N24.9 million
is what we have received so far.
“The N24.9 million given is not sufficient to pay electricity bills
because all the 36 states and zonal offices depend on what comes from
headquarters for their funding,” Oloyede explained.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oloyede also urged the
National Assembly to review its decision to make the UTME result valid
for three years.