NO VERSITY ADMISSION BACKLOG IS CANCELLED - JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has insisted that none of its backlog admissions into Nigerian universities is cancelled as a result of the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) which paralysed academic activities in public universities for 8 months in the country.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede who gave the assurance while addressing the National Executive Council meeting of the Non Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, noted that this was contrary to information in the public domain.
Professor Oloyede emphatically said that JAMB has not cancelled any of 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 admissions, as being speculated.
The Abuja meeting was the first gathering of the NASU Executive, since it temporarily suspended its five months strike in August, by two months.
With the two months suspended strike expiring in early November, the NASU General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi observed that the issues responsible for the Union embarking on the industrial action, remain unresolved.
Adeyemi argued that talks by the Federal Government to include NASU peculiarities into IPPIS, is mere rumour, not backed by any physical evidence.
It would be recalled that in March this year, NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, started strike to press for a new payment platform in stead of the IPPIS as well as the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement, among other demands.
