REASON Why Post UTME Was Scrapped (MUST READ!!)

The reason Post-UTME was
scrapped by the Federal Government has been
revealed by former Executive Secretary, National
Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Peter
Okebukola. He stated that Nigerian universities had

deviated from the initial agreement NUC had
with Vice-Chancellors in 2004 when Post-UTME
was introduced to screen candidates through oral
interviews and written essays.
While further explaining
the reasons Post-UTME
was scrapped, Professor
Okebukola expatiated reasons for the
introduction of  post-
UTME in 2014. He
Said that the NUC
and the vice-chancellors
found out that they
needed to admit into the
universities, secondary
school leavers who have
at least two
characteristics –
Cognitive competence and Intuitive sense.

The former was tested tested by JAMB while
institutions were expected to test the latter.
‘’JAMB’s UTME tests only the first
characteristic; while the university-level
screening should target the second,’’ he said.
He, however said: ‘’We got the blessing of
President Olusegun Obasanjo and the National
Assembly to do the following;
That the :
1. maximum charge to candidates for the
exercise should be a thousand Naira
(N1,000),
2. candidates should be screened not with the
kind of test used by JAMB but through other
Methods .

According to him, since 2010, both guidelines
were ignored by most universities, stressing that
universities were conducting the same tests as
JAMB, charging at least five times the agreed-
cost and not conducting oral interviews and
essay screening.

Excerpts from VanguardNGR