The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has retained the cut off marks of 180 and 150 respectively as cut off marks for this year

The Federal Government has overruled the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on its new admission policy that recently sparked off protests in the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. MacJohn Nwaobiala, disclosed this to State House correspondents on Tuesday after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari about the ministry’s activities and challenges at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Comments:
Sammy: This is a commendable development on the part of the government and the ministry. The annoying thing is that candidates were redistributed to private universities without considering the disparity between fees of public and private schools. I know of a young lady who made the University of Lagos her first choice but was directed to the Augustine University, Epe, Lagos State, where she is expected to pay over N700,000 as tuition and accommodation fees. How many parents can afford such? And before you know it, the National Universities Commission will tell you that the university is not accredited.
Akeju Olagbaju: This is a courageous decision. Of what use is the stakeholders’ meeting to fix the cut-off point if individual universities would later raise or reduce the cut-off mark? The argument is not tenable. I have seen candidates who struggled to attain JAMB’s cut-off mark just to graduate with a first class when they eventually got admission. I think the fatigue of long service is now affecting the registrar of JAMB. Once again, kudos to the Federal Government. Let those who attain the cut-off mark be given an opportunity in their universities of choice.
Emeka Akeju: With this type of quick response from the permanent secretary, do we still need a minister to replace him as head? After all, Buhari may be right, appointment of ministers can wait.
Egi Hamadu: Since JAMB has introduced the computer-based test, universities should stop the post-UTME. I think the CBT is credible enough to be accepted by all universities without another assessment. But for this isolated case, I think the JAMB registrar has done well during his tenure.
Autineokon: Is it not high time we disbanded JAMB? By now, we should allow universities to conduct independent admission examinations.