JAMB Conducts Examination for 390 Blind Candidates in 2019 UTME

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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB Confirms a Total Number of Three Hundred and Ninety {390} Blind Candidates Sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination {UTME}.

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has been commended for providing a level playing field for all child is prevented from taking the UTME regardless of disability.

It would be recalled that in 2017, the Registrar set up the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG) chaired by a distinguished scholar of international repute from the Lagos State University, an upright gentleman who is also the Chairman of the National Open University of Nigeria Governing Council and former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola.

The JEOG is made up of senior academics and experts in Special Education as well as other relevant stakeholders.

The group is charged with the responsibility of conducting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates with visual impairment.

The mandate of the group is to ensure that no eligible Nigerian child is prevented from taking the UTME regardless of disability.

The group is also saddled with the task of facilitating admission for this category of candidates as long as they are intellectually capable and in possession of the basic qualifications for admission into any tertiary institution of their choice.

A statement made available to JAMBulletin by the JEOG Chairman pointed out that the global community had commended this laudable initiative of Prof. Oloyede as it has the capacity to eradicate discrimination and provide equal secured admission to federal, state and private universities and Colleges of Education.” Prof. Okebukola while giving a breakdown of total number of blind candidates that sat the 2019 UTME at 390 in the examination conducted from April 16 to 17 across four centres said the Abuja centre had 57 candidates, Enugu 59, Kano 135 while Lagos recorded 139 candidates.

Okebukola also said the candidates were examined in the following subjects: Agricultural Science, Arabic, Biology, Chemistry, Christian Religious Knowledge, Commerce, Economics, Geography and Government. Other subjects included Hausa, History, Igbo, Islamic Studies, Literature-in-English, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Use of English and Yoruba.