Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede.
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has restated that the board is not an examination body but an educational assessment and admission agency, stressing that its core mandate is to facilitate entry into tertiary institutions.
Oloyede made the clarification while speaking at the maiden Rite Foods National Academic Excellence Awards, held at the Civic Centre, Lagos, where seven undergraduates shared N35m in prizes.
Speaking, Oloyede stressed that JAMB’s function is often misunderstood in Nigeria, where many tend to equate it with traditional examination bodies such as the West African Examination Council and the National Examinations Council.
He said, “We conduct exams, but we are not an examination company. You cannot say the University of Lagos is an examination body because it conducts examinations.
