ON October 14, 2011 both the electronic and print media in Nigeria widely reported the motion passed by the country’s highest law making body, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to the media, the motion brought by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Water Resources, Senator Heineken Lokpobiori, Bayelsa West and co-sponsored by 35 Senators including Smart Adeyemi, Ayogu Eze, Zainab Kure,Chris Anyawu and Dahiru Kuta was passed by the Senate declaring illegal what he described a post-UTME examination conducted by Nigerian Universities for the purpose of admitting fresh students to the institution.
According to the Senator, only the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has the legal power to conduct entrance examinations for candidates seeking to gain admission into Nigerian Universities. He therefore declared as illegal, unconstitutional and wicked the current practice whereby universities conduct screening exercises for candidates submitted to them by JAMB before admitting them into theiruniversities.
In furtherance to this proposition taken by the Senate, it mandated its education committee to investigate the actions of the Universities which the sponsors of the motion condemn in strongterms as “a real-off of our people and a rape of our laws”.
However, some senators opposed the motion. For exampleSenator Aisha Hassan was reported to have “slammed her colleagues who opposed the post-UTME exercise. She argued that quality education which theexercise seeks to entrench should not be sacrificed because it does not favour some. According to her, “we should be saying thank you to the universities for the post-UTME”. They are to give qualitative education to our children. Peoplecondemn when it suits them and tend to condone when it suits them. It is common knowledge that JAMB has failed, I therefore oppose in total the scrapping of post-UTME.
Click here to read the full post.
source: Nigeria Guard
0 comments:
Post a Comment