Students Sues JAMB Over cut-off Marks

Some candidates who are seeking university admission have sued the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the University of Lagos (UNILAG) at the Federal High Court in Lagos over the new policy on cut-off marks.

The court yesterday granted their application for a judicial review of the decision to stop them from writing UNILAG’s entrance examination.
The applicants alleged that JAMB Registrar Prof. Dibu Ojerinde issued a directive stopping them from participating in UNILAG’s post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations scheduled for August 12 and 13.
They also accused Ojerinde of sending their names to other institutions they did not chose.

According to them, they scored above JAMB’s 180 cut-off mark, but UNILAG refused to sell its post-UTME forms to them following the alleged directive by Ojerinde to send the names of all candidates with less than 250 marks to other institutions.
In their ex parte application moved before Justice Mohammed Idris, the applicants prayed for leave to apply for an order of mandamus compelling UNILAG to sell the post-UTME forms to them.