We don't give preferential cut-off marks to northern students - JAMB insists

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has insisted it does not give “preferential cut-off marks” to students who take the Unified Tertiary

Recall that Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State earlier called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,Appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’, the Governor said it was wrong for the students in the North who sit for the UTME to get preferential treatment.

Reacting, the board’s Head of Information and Media, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Tuesday insisted that the exam body doesn’t give preferential cut-off marks for anybody. ”The students sit for the UTME examination and it is what they obtain that is the basis for their selection after the policy meeting has authorised the commencement of admission.

 

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Keep decieving ursef... Quota system

Nice job jamb we want even our animals to be able to be graduates, the work force need their inputs

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JAMB, like every other agency of the Federal Govt of Nigeria, has become a nauseatingly lying agency. I'm surprised it could boldly & shamelessly proclaim that it doesn't give preferential cut-off marks to northern students. What has it been doing if not that?

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