University exam board pledges support to Sudan returnees

Nigeria’s Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will provide the necessary support to ensure that Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan are integrated into Nigerian universities, writes Seun Opejobi for Daily Post.

Registrar of JAMB Professor Ishaq Oloyede spoke while hosting the chair of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission Abike Dabiri-Erewa on Tuesday 9 May. Oloyede pledged the board’s support in integrating the returning students from Sudan.

“What we will do is … provide the necessary infrastructure, the necessary enablement to make you accommodate or return these candidates to our educational system … There are procedures for transferring students. He said the procedures would be followed “properly [and] with the cooperation of the National Universities Commission and the individual institutions”.
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