Not all Candidates that sat for the Saturday UTME will got Admited To University

1.2 million UTME Candidates Won’t Gain Admission – FG.
PRESIDENT Jonathan Intervenes to Admit More People.
 
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai announced that of the 1,735,720 students that registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, only 520,000 will gain admission.

This figure, according to Hope For Nigeria is about 70.04% of those that sat for UTME that will not get admission in the coming school year.

Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai blamed this on the low-carrying capacity of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria. She said, “The major challenge is a country like Nigeria having 1.7 million sitting for examination. The space we have is 520,000 for federal, states, private universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.

President Goodluck Jonathan who envisioned this ugly development about 18 months divested two cardinal solution methods.
The first is expanding the capacity to take in more UTME candidates by creating 9 new federal universities, which cut across the six geopolitical zones in the country. These Universities are;


1] Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. ---North Central.
2] Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. -------North Central.
3] Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.-- North East.
4] Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. ----North East.
5] Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.-North West.
6] Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.-------North West.
7] Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. ---South South.
8] Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State.-South East.
9] Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.-------South West.

All these University will help in enrolling successful UTME candidate in this school year.
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday advised Nigeria’s National Economic Council (NEC) to approve the upgrade of six federal universities to mega tertiary institutions with absorptive capacity of 150,000 students to 200,000 students each. The Affected Universities are yet to be named by the Presidency.

The second part of the solution professed by the President after increasing capacity for Candidates is improving the standard in our Universities through upgrading of facilities in-line with Modern International University standard.