JAMB announces August 21 as commencement date for 2020/21 academic admissions

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday, July 19, approved August 21 for tertiary institutions to commence first and second choice admission for the 2020/2021 session.

This was contained in the 2020 admission guidelines signed by the Registrar of JAMB, Is-haq Oloyede.

The board warned institutions not to bypass the Central Admission Processing System, through which admissions must be conducted.

“The 1st and 2nd Choices Admission-Exercise be conducted for all institutions from 21st August 2020 to a later date that would be determined by the Federal Ministry of Education and communicated to all the institutions.

“All applications for admissions to First Degree, National Diploma, National Innovation Diploma and the Nigeria Certificate in Education into Full Time, Distance Learning, Part-Time, Outreach, Sandwich, etc, must be processed ONLY through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),” the statement read in part.

Last month, JAMB approved 160 and above as 2020 national minimum cut-off mark for admission into public universities. he board also approved 140 as minimum UTME score for admission into private universities.

Meanwhile, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) says full deregulation of the downstream oil and gas sector will help force down price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol.

The agency made this known in a statement signed by its Executive Secretary, Mr Saidu Abdulkadir in Abuja, on Sunday, July 19.

1st News had reported that the PPPRA on July 1, announced a pump price band of N140.80k and N143.80k per liter for PMS.

This was an increase by N20.30 from the June price of N121.50 per litre.

He attributed the rise in the pump price of the commodity to the cost of petroleum products in the international market and the cost of acquiring foreign exchange (FOREX).

AbdulKadir explained that the newly-adopted market-based pricing system was in view of the need to promote the growth of the Nigerian petroleum industry and the economy in general.

He said that oil marketing companies had resumed fuel importation; and had also directly imported a total of 536,000 metric tonnes of PMS into the country.

According to him, additional investment in local refining, will engender competition; and force down prices of products.