House Of Reps Summon JAMB Registrar Over Mass Failure This Year

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has been summoned by the House of Representatives to explain the mass failure recorded by students who sat for the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the body.

This development is coming on the heels of a peaceful demonstration by students in Kano state who protested the poor results as well as the withholding of their results over thumb-print verification.

However, explaining the rationale behind the invitation, Chairman, House Committee on Education, Aminu Suleiman (PDP, Kano) said: “We heard that JAMB authorities had formally explained some reasons for the mass failure, this is not enough if the content of the complaints of Nigerians is anything to go by.

“One of the complaints was that concerning the usage of computer for the exam that most of them have never had contact with computer before or that they only learnt the theory without the practical usage of computers.

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