Universities suspend admission of 461,745 students due to strike
ASUU Emergency Congress to be held on Monday
The suspension of admissions to Nigerian universities has resulted in universities failing to process a total of 461,745 admissions, a survey by Saturday PUNCH has revealed.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, in statistics provided to our correspondent, however blamed the University Academic Staff Union strike for the development.
"Some institutions have confirmed that they have suspended the process due to the ASUU strike; The ASUU strike is a factor; many institutions have not yet started admissions in 2021 despite repeated appeals,” JAMB noted in the document.
Our correspondent also found that a total of 36,947 candidates for the 2021 Unified Graduate Diploma Examinations processed their admissions to private institutions.
Saturday PUNCH reports that strike actions by university unions such as ASUU, the Association of Senior Staff of Nigerian Universities; The University Non-Academic Staff Union and other allied institutions continued to cripple academic activities at federal and state universities.
For example, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the ASUU went on strike in 1999 for a period of 150 days; 90 days in 2001; 14 days in 2002; 180 days in 2003; 14 days in 2005; three days in 2006 and 90 days in 2007.
Under the administration of the late Umaru Yarad'ua, the union went on strike in 2008 for seven days; 120 days in 2009.
Under former president Goodluck Jonathan, the union left the class in 2010 for a period of 150 days; 2011 for a period of 59 days; 150 days in 2013.
Furthermore, under the rule of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired), the ASUU went on strike four times.
In 2017 the union went on strike for a period of 30 days, while in 2018 the union suspended university activities for a period of 90 days.
In 2020, ASUU went on strike for 270 days; which stakeholders describe as the longest strike in Nigeria's history.
So far in 2022, ASUU has been on strike for nearly 186 days with no end in sight.
During strikes, academic activities are suspended.
In the data made available to our correspondent, it was noted that for admissions for the 2021/2022 session, which should have ended, was still in progress due to the strike.
For further explanation, JAMB noted that a total of 774,411 admission quotas have been granted to Nigerian universities to be split among federal, state and private universities.
For federal universities, a total of 424,442 quotas have been allocated.
However, our correspondent observed that only 136,527 admissions were processed despite more than 595,757 applicants applying to just 10 federal universities.
State universities obtained a total quota of 232,801 admissions, but could only process 139,192 admissions before the strike began.
Similarly, JAMB admitted that a total of 117,411 admission quotas were awarded to private universities, but the board noted that only 36,947 quotas were filled.
Further analysis of the data revealed that some programs also had many unfilled admission quotas.
For example, medicine/pharmacy, which had a total of 39,850 people, only admitted 33,671 before the strike began.
Social science departments admitted only 53,723 applicants despite the 89,747 admissions quota granted by JAMB.
Similarly, the science department with 121,696 quotas only admitted a total of 70,221.
Engineering, Technology admitted only 35,051 despite having a total of 58,451 quota; Arts and Humanities also admitted 31,478 despite a quota of 47,727.
Similarly, for Law, the council noted that only 5,630 quotas were filled despite the 8,055 quotas allocated.
Giving additional statistics, JAMB said the strike also affected admissions for fiscal year 2020.
The board, however, gave the total admissions processed as 551,553.
Meanwhile, for the 2022/2023 admission, the board noted that a total of 1,649,310 applicants have applied for admission to the university.
While the panel did not give a breakdown of the applications by category of universities to which they applied, it did note that more than 500,000 of these applicants applied to 10 federal universities, at namely the University of Ilorin; University of Lagos; Nnamdi Azikwe University; Bayero University of Kano; University of Benin; Federal University Oye-Ekiti; Obafemi Awolowo University; University of Nigeria; Ahmadu Bello University and the...
The suspension of admissions to Nigerian universities has resulted in universities failing to process a total of 461,745 admissions, a survey by Saturday PUNCH has revealed.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, in statistics provided to our correspondent, however blamed the University Academic Staff Union strike for the development.
"Some institutions have confirmed that they have suspended the process due to the ASUU strike; The ASUU strike is a factor; many institutions have not yet started admissions in 2021 despite repeated appeals,” JAMB noted in the document.
Our correspondent also found that a total of 36,947 candidates for the 2021 Unified Graduate Diploma Examinations processed their admissions to private institutions.
Saturday PUNCH reports that strike actions by university unions such as ASUU, the Association of Senior Staff of Nigerian Universities; The University Non-Academic Staff Union and other allied institutions continued to cripple academic activities at federal and state universities.
For example, under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the ASUU went on strike in 1999 for a period of 150 days; 90 days in 2001; 14 days in 2002; 180 days in 2003; 14 days in 2005; three days in 2006 and 90 days in 2007.
Under the administration of the late Umaru Yarad'ua, the union went on strike in 2008 for seven days; 120 days in 2009.
Under former president Goodluck Jonathan, the union left the class in 2010 for a period of 150 days; 2011 for a period of 59 days; 150 days in 2013.
Furthermore, under the rule of President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (Retired), the ASUU went on strike four times.
In 2017 the union went on strike for a period of 30 days, while in 2018 the union suspended university activities for a period of 90 days.
In 2020, ASUU went on strike for 270 days; which stakeholders describe as the longest strike in Nigeria's history.
So far in 2022, ASUU has been on strike for nearly 186 days with no end in sight.
During strikes, academic activities are suspended.
In the data made available to our correspondent, it was noted that for admissions for the 2021/2022 session, which should have ended, was still in progress due to the strike.
For further explanation, JAMB noted that a total of 774,411 admission quotas have been granted to Nigerian universities to be split among federal, state and private universities.
For federal universities, a total of 424,442 quotas have been allocated.
However, our correspondent observed that only 136,527 admissions were processed despite more than 595,757 applicants applying to just 10 federal universities.
State universities obtained a total quota of 232,801 admissions, but could only process 139,192 admissions before the strike began.
Similarly, JAMB admitted that a total of 117,411 admission quotas were awarded to private universities, but the board noted that only 36,947 quotas were filled.
Further analysis of the data revealed that some programs also had many unfilled admission quotas.
For example, medicine/pharmacy, which had a total of 39,850 people, only admitted 33,671 before the strike began.
Social science departments admitted only 53,723 applicants despite the 89,747 admissions quota granted by JAMB.
Similarly, the science department with 121,696 quotas only admitted a total of 70,221.
Engineering, Technology admitted only 35,051 despite having a total of 58,451 quota; Arts and Humanities also admitted 31,478 despite a quota of 47,727.
Similarly, for Law, the council noted that only 5,630 quotas were filled despite the 8,055 quotas allocated.
Giving additional statistics, JAMB said the strike also affected admissions for fiscal year 2020.
The board, however, gave the total admissions processed as 551,553.
Meanwhile, for the 2022/2023 admission, the board noted that a total of 1,649,310 applicants have applied for admission to the university.
While the panel did not give a breakdown of the applications by category of universities to which they applied, it did note that more than 500,000 of these applicants applied to 10 federal universities, at namely the University of Ilorin; University of Lagos; Nnamdi Azikwe University; Bayero University of Kano; University of Benin; Federal University Oye-Ekiti; Obafemi Awolowo University; University of Nigeria; Ahmadu Bello University and the...
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