FOLLOWING the submission of Joint Admissions
Matriculation Board (JAMB) to the will of parents
and students who kicked against JAMB’s posting
of students to institutions they didn’t pick, eleven
federal universities are to share the sum of
N1,577,414,000 or 1.5billion Naira in the on
going post UTME exercise across tertiary
institutions nationwide.
11 varsities make N1.7bn from post-UTME
screenings
Year in year out as students in Nigeria conclude
their secondary school education, they aspire to
further their studies in tertiary institutions. The
first step in the series of stepping stones is WAEC,
GCE or NECO, then comes JAMB. The last is post
UTME which some quarters say is irrelevant since
JAMB exists and others say is important as tertiary
institutions use it to further “sift the dirt from the
shaft.”
Upon the purchase of University of Benin post-
UTME forms, 60, 020 applicants, at 3,550 Naira
each, would add 213,071,000/213million to the
school’s coffers. Being renowned for having the
highest number of applicants, University of Ilorin
has 85, 945 applicants who picked up the forms
at 4000naira each and provided the school with
343,780,000/ 343million. The Lion’s Den was not
left out as the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, with
57, 539 prospective students, at N2,000 trapped
115,078,000/ N115million.
Birthed by Delta State Government, Delta State
University would bracket 236,562,000 / 236
million, from 78,854 applicants at N3,000 each,
whether they are admitted or not, whether they
succeed in writing the exam or not. In the heart
of the nation’s economic capital, University of
Lagos, with 49,059 applicants would bag
96,236,000/ 196 million at N4,000 per form.
The first capital of the nation, Calabar in Cross
River State which hosts University of Calabar has
generated N116,837,500/ 116million from
17,975 applicants at 6,500 per form.
Thirty eight thousand five hundred and twenty
(38,520) applicants purchased UTME form at
N4,500 from University of Ibadan, that would
accrue N173,340,000 to the institution. Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile Ife, which exists for
learning and culture charged each of the 34,409
applicants N3,500 and bagged N120,431,500/
120million.
Voice of submission
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and University of
Port-Harcourt both charged 52, 785 and 28, 254
applicants respectively N2,000 for UTME and
bagged N105,570,000 and N56,508,000
respectively. Despite the large number of
applicants, the highest number that can be
admitted in varsities is five to six thousand. The
question then is; what happens to the rest?
Does it get turned over to the government as
income? Does it count as internally generated
revenue? Why not just produce the cards
according to the spaces available? Why not have
these exams conducted at minimal cost then
charge students school fees upon admission?
These are the questions some stakeholders ask.
While others do not mind, “provided they get
admission.” Theirs is a voice of submission.
Mr Effiom Ekpeyong, whose son picked up
University of Uyo’s post-UTME form for N3,500
said; “I do not have a choice, before you finish
clamouring here and there time has gone, the
university will do what they want and the child
will spend one year at home. Let him do it and
go.”
At N3,300 Mr Chijindu Chinazor bought post-
UTME form for his child to test and hopefully get
admitted into Federal University of Agriculture,
Abeokuta, Ogun State. His reaction goes thus;
“Am not bothered, provided they get admission.
If people think education is expensive they should
try ignorance. That is however not to say that we
should be extorted from.
“My first daughter went in 2008, she bought
her’s 1,000 from University of Benin, that it is
now 3,550 is a simple factor of inflation which is
in every sector of the economy, why should the
education sector be different?” Pastor Chuks Obi
who has three wards that are sitting for post
utme, lamented that UNIBEN has taken close to
N20,000 from his coffers for his wards post UTME
form.
Post UTME form
Analysing the amount he spent, Obi said, ‘’Before
this post utme form came out, one of my
daughters who is a student of Uniben asked me
to send N1,500 each to her siblings for pre- post
UTME test which I sent. When the actual form
came out, she demanded I send N2,500 for the
forms, Which I gladly did. I became worried when
my daughter from UNIBEN called and said the
form was no longer N2,500 but N3,550.
“I became alarmed over what I call unnecessary
expense by some universities. What if I can’t
afford such amount, what of other parents who
are unable to afford such amount for a candidate
talk more of two candidates?’’
An applicant of Uniben, Joy Obi said ‘’I thank my
parents for paying my post utme form, however,
the form is too expensive. I am not happy that
some candidates will forfeit higher institutions
due to high cost of form. I want the federal
government to come to the rescue of students
because education ought to be the right of every
Nigerian child

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/11-varsities-make-n1-7bn-from-post-utme-screenings/

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