This information was revealed in a statement released to the media on Wednesday in Abuja by the board’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released procedures for integrating returning students from nations affected by war into Nigerian universities.
The follow-ups to the high-level conference involving the Federal Ministries of Education and Health, JAMB, the Nigeria in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), the National Universities Commission (NUC), and other important stakeholders, according to Benjamin, were the modalities.
The discussion, according to him, was about integrating returned Nigerian students from war-torn nations into the country’s tertiary education system.
He added that the dialogue with the stakeholders was to offer the processes for critique as well as to gather input. He further maintained that the Senate of each institution had the authority to decide on university transfers and should not wait for JAMB to commence such.
Each of them is required to complete a retroactive registration with the ministry of education in accordance with the most recent advisory on the processes for emergency transfers of returning students.
He said that the present advisory on returnees strengthened the old one rather than superseding it by tightening the transfer processes.
The returnee students must go to the returnee application page on IBASS, which is reachable from the JAMB website, and submit their registration slips and complete the transfer of personal data.
The vice chancellors were tasked by the registrar with being watchful and carefully examining the certificates that were submitted to their universities in order to avoid any pitfalls that would damage their institutions’ well-deserved reputation.
The move will be supported, according to stakeholders from the FME, NUC, NiDCOM, and vice chancellors who sided with JAMB’s position.
