JAMB: Why UTME 2018 fee will not be reduced

Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is-haq Oloyede, has said that they may not reduce the fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 2018.

Oloyede told journalists on Thursday in Ilorin, that the board had initially thought of reducing the fee for UTME in 2018.

The JAMB registrar, who decried the unwholesome activities of some parents during the 2017 UTME, said the fee reduction was no longer a serious option.

“It (reduction in fee) is one of the options, but what’s mitigating against it, why I’m not convinced and I don’t think the board too is convinced, is that are the so-called poor people genuinely poor?

“Our findings reveal that what people spend on corruption in the society to solicit for what was not lost is alarming.

“What parents pay for seeking unholy support and what parents are prepared to pay looking for how to cut corners show that if actually they are poor, they will not be able to secure the resources they are wasting,” he said.