UNIABUJA EXPLAINS WHY IT CANCELS 2015/2016 POST UME EXERCISE.

The University of Abuja, UniAbuja, management has
explained that the redistribution exercise of the Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, was what
caused the university’s cancellation of the post Unified
Tertiary Matriculations Examination, UMTE, screening
for students seeking admission into its 2015/ 2016
academic year.
The management through the UniAbuja spokesman,
Waziri Garba told Daily Trust that there was no need
for post UTME since the redistribution exercise carried
out by JAMB has left the school with a number of
candidates it can handle.
According to him, “initially we had about 16,000
candidates applying then after JAMB did their
redistribution exercise we came down to about 6,000
and we need about 4,000 students only. So why do we
conduct post UMTE, it will cost us more to conduct it
for 6,000 people than 16,000 people”.
Garba, who explained that the school had resolved to
do the admission on merit basis at the departmental
level, said the exercise was currently ongoing at the
departmental level and will later proceed to central
admission unit of the varsity which will compile
everything before finally being sent to JAMB.