The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, Is’haq Oloyede has described the critics of the 160 cut off mark recently set by the Board for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2019/2020 academic session as ignorant of the mandate of the board.
Oloyede, who said this at a verification exercise University of Ilorin, explained that the Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME is about ranking of candidates and space available in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.
The Unilorin certificate screening exercise commenced last year with the Vice Chancellor, Sulyman Age Abdulkareem, being the first to present his certificate for verification.
Speaking with newsmen on the sideline of the exercise, Oloyede reminded the critics of JAMB that the purpose of the UTME is to rank the already qualified candidates, saying space available in the institutions would determine how many would be taken.
