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SENATE CANCELS POST UTME, EXTENDS
JAMBS VALIDITY PERIOD TO 3 YEARS
ABUJA- THE Senate Thursday passed into law
that which would guarantee the validity of any
admission offered by the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board, JAMB to any
candidate for a period of three academic
years from the date of the conduct of Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Also, the Senate finally put to rest the
controversy trailing the conduct of the Post-
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(Post-UTME) by the Universities, thereby
declaring it illegal and unconstitutional, just
as the upper chambers said that with the
decision, the question of who was in charge of
admission has been answered. Deliberating on
the report by the Senator Barau Jibrin led
Committee on Tertiary Institutions and
TETFUND, of a Bill for an Act to amend the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
Act and other matters connected thereof,
2016( SB.245), the senators amended
subsection (a) of section 5 to read as follows:
” 5(b) the Matriculations Examinations
conducted by the Board shall be the sole
examinations required for admission and entry
into all Universities, ‘ Polytechnics (by
whatever name called) and Colleges of
Education (by whateVer name called), to the
exclusion of any other institution or body.”
With the passage of the bill, it would now
require the president to assent to the bill
where it would then become a law and with
the bill coming from the Executive, President
Muhammadu Buhari may not delay in the
signing of the bill into law. It would be
recalled that on Wednesday 1st June 2016,
the Senate of Federal Republic at its sitting
read JAMB
Amendment bill 2016 (SB.245) the second
time and referred same to the Committee on
Tertiary Institutions and Tetfund. The purpose
of the bill was to amend the JAMB Act to
increase validity period of JAMB examination
from one academic year to three academic
years. The Committee in considering the Bill,
made reference to Votes and Proceedings and
Verbatim reports of Wednesday 2nd March
2016, particularly to the contributions of
Members regarding the financial hardship
experienced yearly by parents/guardians in
Sponsoring the candidates for JAMB
examination. On the three year validity of the
result, the report said, ” Validity of Section 6: ‘
“6. (i)any examination conducted by the Board
pursuant to the powers conferred by this Act
shall be valid for a period of three academic
years from the date of the examination.

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fan.
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