Post-UTME: 42 Universities To Refund Candidates For Over Charging

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede (File Photo)

The minister of education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, has directed 42 identified universities that charged more than the ₦2,000 instructed by the Ministry of Education for 2017 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations to identify affected candidates and refund the excesses to them.

This was disclosed by JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, during a stakeholders’ meeting on the 2018 UTME in Abuja.

According to him, one of the affected vice-chancellors, who could not trace the affected candidates, was ordered by the minister of education to give the excess to a non-religious orphanage as charity.

“There are 42 institutions queried by the minister for charging more than ₦2,000 for the post-UTME. Oloyede said.

“The affected universities are now refunding the excess to the candidates and the candidates are reporting back to us.

“In one case where the university could not trace the affected students, the minister directed that the money should be paid to a non-religious orphanage.

“The candidates in that case could not be traced for a refund. Hence, the minister has put his feet down that all excess charges should be refunded.

“Where the universities have the list, they are paying the candidates directly.

“The purpose of this stakeholders’ meeting is to brief those officials who will be on the field for the 2018 UTME.

“We also reviewed the incidents of 2017 and welcomed recommendations from the stakeholders.”