No Admission For Awaiting Result
Candidates This Year?


No fewer than one million candidates who applied for admissions
into the universities with awaiting results may be denied
admissions as many of the institutions have fixed dates to com­
mence screening of prospective applicants for the 2016/2017
academic c .
Saturday Sun investigations revealed that over one million
candidates currently in secondary schools that wrote the 2017
Universities Matriculation Tertiary Examination (UTME) did so as
awaiting result candidates, which has been the practice.
In the May/June2017 West African Senior School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE), 1,552,772 million candidates registered
for the school exam while over 1,200,000 million candidates also
registered for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE)
conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO)
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is currently
marking the answer scripts of candidates that wrote the May/
June 2017 WASSCE and would release the results in August
while the SSCE conducted by NECO is on going nationwide and
would be concluded July ending.
Some of the universities have placed adverts inviting prospective
candidates for the screening exercise for the 2016/2017
academic session starting this month even as WAEC is yet to
release the May/June 2017 WASSCE result, while other
candidates are currently writing the SSCE (NECO), which would
be released either in September or October.
In some of the advertisements for the screening text, the
universities stated that applicants for admissions are to come
with original UTME result, WAEC or NECO result, birth certificates,
scratch card, local government area and state of origin
certificates, testimonial of schools attended, police and medical
reports.
The implication is that many of the prospective candidates
seeking admission with awaiting results may miss the
opportunity unless the Federal Government wades into the issue.
The fear of parents and schools is that some of the institutions
would have concluded the screening exercise before WAEC and
NECO release the results.
The Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE)
in its advert inviting applicants’ admission it reads: “Only
candidates who have five credits at one or two sittings (including
English Language and Mathematics) are eligible to apply.
Candidates awaiting results may, however, be considered for the
2016/2017 admissions exercise.’’
Source: Sun Newspaper.
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