JAMB has no role in mobilization of HND students for NYSC_ JAMB Registrar
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has clarified that it has no role in the mobilization of Higher National Diploma (HND) students for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), following complaints from the National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) about being excluded from the mandatory one-year scheme.
The board thereby advised the affected students to direct their complaints to the appropriate authorities.
This comes against the backdrop of reports claiming that JAMB was responsible for the non-mobilization of some HND students for the National Youth Service scheme.
Speaking during a meeting with the leadership of NAPS at JAMB headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB’s Registrar, clarified that the Board does not oversee the admission of HND students and therefore has no role in their mobilization for the NYSC.
Oloyede, who expressed surprise that JAMB is being targeted by the association on the issue, described the action as ‘born out from sheer ignorance of the mandate of the Board.’
“You are wasting your time talking to someone who has no involvement in the matter. If something affects you, the first step is to identify the root cause so that you don’t apply the wrong solution to a problem that does not exist,” Oloyede said.
He explained that JAMB’s mandate is limited to conducting examinations for admission into universities, national diploma (ND), and Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) programmes, not HND programmes.
“We admit students for ND programmes. Once you graduate and seek HND admission, JAMB has no further role. HND admissions are conducted by individual institutions,” he added.
He also disclosed that there was a challenge of correlation between the ND which the students have acquired and the HND which in most cases are acquired in different institutions.
He advised NAPS to thoroughly investigate the problem to uncover the root causes and solutions.
“Go and study the problem in detail, and if you do, you will find the solution,” he advised.
