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JAMB Makes Case For Exam Fee Hike, Seeks Financial Autonomy

JAMB Makes Case For Exam Fee Hike, Seeks Financial Autonomy

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has called on the House of Representatives Committee on Finance to consider granting it financial autonomy by removing it from the list of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in the annual budget of the Federal Government.

This is even as JAMB made a case for a reversal of the recent reduction of the examination fee from ₦5,000 to ₦3,500.

JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, made this appeal in Abuja on Wednesday at the public hearing on the proposed 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper organised by the committee.

Oloyede, however, pointed out …