By Leshi Adebayo
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has charged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stop giving “preferential scores” to students in the Northern part of Nigeria.
He stated this on Monday while appearing on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’.
The governor said it was wrong for the students in the North who sit for the UTME exam to get preferential treatment.
El-Rufai said that all students in the country should get the same cut-off marks and that students in the North should not be given lesser cut-off marks.
“The north has always been behind in education, we’ve continuously been the disadvantaged region right from independence even though we’re given preferences, JAMB scores and all that. That has not helped; in fact, it has made our people lazy,” he said.
The governor said instead of the differential JAMB and Federal Government scores, students in the North should rather be encouraged to work hard and compete with the other regions.
Recall that BlackBox Nigeria reported that JAMB had cancelled the national cut-off mark, saying Nigeria’s tertiary institutions will now determine their admission benchmark.
The new decision was made at the 2021 policy meeting presided over by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu.
