Press Release: ‎ UNAUTHORISED COURSES: FG WARNS UNIVERSITIES OF AGRIC, TECHNOLOGY

..says they should stick to their mandate‎

The Federal Government has directed that all specialized are to stick to their core mandates which they were set up to carry and desist from running programmes which have no bearing to their foundation.
Specialised Universities are University set up to pursue specific courses/ programmes to steer the need of manpower in a particular sector of the economy. Some of these specialized institutions include Universities such as Universities of Agriculture, Universities of Technologies, Universities of Medicine, amongst others.

Why FG scraps post UTME, PEGS CUT-OFF AT 180

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde

The Federal Government Thursday scrapped the conduct of post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for candidates seeking admission into higher institution.

The government explained that all tertiary institutions were at liberty to conduct screening for candidates seeking admission into any school.
Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, said this on Thursday in Abuja after declaring open the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher institutions in Nigeria.

Adamu, expressed confidence in the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), adding that there was no need for other examination to be conducted by universities after JAMB.