FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA TO SCRAP JAMB UTME, NECO AND NAPEP
Last updated on November 19th, 2014 at 12:34 pm
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” ABUJA—The Federal Government is scrapping the National Examinations Council, NECO, and the National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP among other government agencies. It is also divesting the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board of powers to conduct examinations into tertiary institutions in the country.
The government is taking the decision in order to streamline agencies of government and reduce the cost of governance.
The decision, Vanguard gathered is part of the recommendations of the Steve Oronsaye Panel Report on the reform of government agencies and ministries.
The Oronsaye Committee Recommendations
Mr Oronsaye who was the former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation recommended the abolition of 38 agencies, merger of 52 and reversal of 14 to departments in ministries.
According to the white paper, which was drafted by a committee headed by the Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board would be divested of the powers to conduct matriculation examinations into tertiary institutions while universities would be allowed to conduct their entrance examinations to students.
Although the JAMB would not be scrapped, it would be a mere administrative structure that would set standard for minimum requirements on how the various universities would conduct entrance examinations.
JAMB to be re-modelled
JAMB will be modelled along same line with the body in the United States of America which sets standards for admissions into institutions of higher learning.
Other decisions taken by government on the Oronsaye committee include the scrapping of the National Examinations Council, NECO, the National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, and the National Complaints commission.
The report seen by Vanguard, recommended that the functions of NECO would be assumed by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, which will also take over the structures of NECO nationwide.
In order to make up for the deluge of students who sit for the external examinations of Neco, WAEC would be expected to conduct two external examinations, one in January and another in November for external students while still running its internal examination programmes for secondary school students.
Under the proposal, the National Poverty Eradication Programme would be replaced by an agency called National Agency for Job Creation and Empowerment (NAJCE) while the National Complaints Commission will be merged with the National Human Rights Commission.
The Government rejected the recommendation urgung the scrapping of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission and the Ministry of Police Affairs, saying it would be counter productive.
A member of the committee told Vanguard that the decision was preparatory to government’s plans to overhaul major sectors in the country.
“JAMB will be divested of the admission provision. It will no longer conduct examinations but will be a clearing house. Every school will admit its students.
“Neco will be scrapped and its infrastructure will be merged with that of the West African Examination Council (waec).
“Universities will be allowed to set their standards but jamb will set the minimum standard for admission into all tertiary institutions” the source said.
Several efforts to reach the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity failed as he did not pick his phones as at the time of this report.
It will be recalled that the Oronsaye report stated that the average cost of governance in Nigeria is believed to rank among the highest in the world.
Oronsaye said in his report that “there are 541 Government Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies (statutory and non-statutory).
“Going by the recommendations of the Committee, the figure of statutory agencies is being proposed for reduction to 161 from the current figure of 263.
“The Committee believes that if the cost of governance must be brought down, then both the Legislature and Judiciary must make spirited efforts at reducing their running costs…”
SOURCE: VANGUARD
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This is total madness, if not in Nigeria have u ever seen a country that scrap its only examination body because of the recommendation of an old drunk person called oronsaye.
Hmmmm!
They should scrap jamb and the neco exams we don’t need it, we prefer waec exams
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i really support the idea of scraping jamb,neco,let waec cover neco,and let universities conduct entrance examination 4 its candidates
I so much admire the decision.no jamb exams at all!!!.atleast 2 end excess expenses.who ever that come up with this decision,bravo!!!
It ws great idea of scraping jamb bt hw sure university wil not practices corruptn in area of admissn?
I realy surport the motion of scraping jamb. Let the school conduct their exam, but Neco is our exam.
Its sound so good.I realy support de idea 100 percent
dear presenter, pls cud d career counselor enlighten d masses n d universities wats d meaning of aptitude test cos i dont c any need why students who prepare for their courses and profession should be failing d test, tank u
Dear soucce, Scraping UTME is a good idea but if NECO will also be scraped does it mean the previous NECO result will not be acceped?
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Jamb isn’t the only examination body in Nigeria,this is another good step,only if we allow it,do u kw who many people sit for jamb,pass Jamb and yet get frustrated by the test set by the school? Money here and there,now,we kw one is going thru the school,so,be it.
Jamb used to do a great deal of nice job in it 80s n 90s but now they are the major money making body in educational sector today, instead of setting standards to help the nigeria education. Scraping is just the perfect offer to jamb. Make dem stop to de jam jam our intelligent youth joo
is a good step to scrap dem, to many exam board, but in d case of NECO does it render d previous neco results invalid/ unacceptable?
Woow i love dis.it is good 4 jamb to b scrapped k 4rm my opinion i see utme as a body set to restrict students to only one school dat is d first choice bt bw da t skuls will set it demselves u can buy d forms of as many skuls u want dat is if u av money.thumbs up 4 da genius dat came up wit dis bright idea
Government should nt scrap Jamb…instead Post UME.
if neco is been scraped what happens
to those people using the result