The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has lifted the embargo it placed on the Lagos State University (LASU), Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT),Ebonyi State University (EBSU) and five others across the country.
The other institutions are the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt; Abia State University, Uturu; Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki; Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State; Evan Enwerem University, Owerri; and Anambra State University, Uli, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, who announced this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said the universities were banned from admitting new students because they were on strike for a long period. He said this made it difficult for the usual semesters and academic years to run smoothly.
Ojerinde said JAMB lifted the embargo after it had consulted with the affected institutions and various stakeholders in the Ministry of Education in the affected states, who came along with their commissioners. He said JAMB convened the meeting after making necessary arrangements to assemble the pro-chancellors, vice chancellors and registrars of the affected universities as well as the commissioners for education.
The JAMB boss stated that it was aimed at summarising issues of admissions into those universities and infrastructure as well as helping them to catch up with other universities on the agency’s programmed timetable for semesters up till the 2011/2012 academic session.
“I’m happy to say that everything that was agreed upon will be done and we hope that those universities will now join others in the country in all matters affecting admissions, examination timetable, semesters and so on,” Ojerinde said.
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