According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), it will offer the assistance required to make sure that Nigerian students evacuated from the war-torn Sudan are enrolled in the universities of the country.
When the chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, led others to the examination body’s headquarters to discuss modalities for integrating the affected students into tertiary institutions in the nation, the registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this information known.
Oloyede, who sympathized with the students, praised NiDCOM for handling their evacuations skillfully and added that JAMB will make sure the desired support was provided.
What we’ll do, according to Oloyede, is give you the facilities and tools you need to accept or admit these applicants (students) back into our educational system.
The head of JAMB, however, urged the students to avoid following in the footsteps of those who, after returning to Nigeria more than a year ago as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, disobeyed the requirements that would have ensured they could continue their academic programs in Nigerian universities without interruption.
He stated, “We must congratulate NiDCOM for its efforts in bringing the students into the Nigerian university system, and we have provided the Commission with the method and procedure.
“There are procedures (for student transfers), transcripts, rules and regulations, and nobody should think that a Nigerian university will grant degrees to students who have attended for less than two years. The National Universities Commission and the specific institution work together to ensure that the procedure is carried out legally and properly. The Commission chairman already has the JAMB guidelines in her possession.
Adding that they had provided the commission with the process and protocol, he praised NiDCOM for working to enroll the students in the Nigerian university system.
As of Tuesday, 1,730 Nigerians, according to NiDCOM Chairman Dabiri-Erewa, have been evacuated from Sudan. She added that the bulk of them were students anxious to continue their education in Nigeria while they waited for the war to end.
The head of the NiDCOM gave the assurance that the appropriate steps would be taken to reintegrate the impacted students into Nigerian higher education institutions.