No fewer than 53% of 4,216 candidates with disabilities have secured admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across Nigeria in the last 10 years through the intervention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Equal Opportunity Group.
The Chairman of JEOG and former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Emeritus Prof. Peter Okebukola, disclosed this on Wednesday during the 2026 JAMB National Stakeholder Engagement on Inclusivity and Higher Education held at the NUC headquarters in Abuja.
The JAMB Equal Opportunity Group is an initiative established by the outgoing JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, to provide candidates with disabilities equal access to the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and admission into tertiary institutions.
According to Okebukola, the programme has recorded remarkable success over the past decade, with an average of 53 per cent of participating candidates gaining admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education annually.
He explained that the beneficiaries include candidates with visual impairment, autism, Down syndrome, albinism and other disabilities.
