The Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board has lifted the embargo on admission
for Lagos State University (LASU) and five state universities in the
South East zone for the 2011/2012 session.
Dibu Ojerinde, the
JAMB registrar announced this at the end of a meeting with proprietors
of the universities on Wednesday in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Mr.
Ojerinde added that candidates willing to apply to the institutions for
the 2011/2012 academic Session can now visit JAMB’s website for
registration beginning from today.
“I must confess
that they have been very forthright and they have been very sincere
with us that they will do it,” Mr. Ojerinde said. “On our part today,
immediately they made the promises and they signed the agreement, we
now have gone to the Internet to disband these institutions from
registration. Candidates can now go and register for the institutions
for this 2011/2012 session and will take the June 11 UTME examinations
to be able to enter those institutions next session.”
The National
Universities Commission had stopped the institutions from admitting
students for the 2011/2012 academic session because of their inability
to conclude their academic activities for 2009/2010 and
non-registration of candidates for the 2010/2011 as a result of the
protracted industrial action by their local chapters of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Mr. Ojerinde added
that concurrently, the institutions would commence the 2011/2012
academic calendar and end in June 2012. He, however, said that there
may be some form of overlapping but added that the universities have
made arrangements and commitment to cope. Justifying why the embargo
was lifted, he said: “The various proprietors, that is, the various
Ministries of Education, have come along with them, with their
commissioners of education to tell us how they will be able to fund
these universities to be able to move forward.
“All of these
things have been thoroughly discussed and each university has given us
a schedule of how they will complete and, in fact, almost all of them
have completed the 2009/2010 academic calendar, except one or two who
will now be finishing in February. But as soon as they finish in
February, they will start 2010/2011 academic calendar and most of them
will finish it in November 2011.”
Other universities
affected include the Rivers State University of Science and Technology,
Port Harcourt and Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye.
The NUC has also vowed to ensure the religious implementation of the
approved timetable so that standards are not compromised in the
training of students.
