The Admissions Committee of the University of Ilorin has appealed to candidates seeking admission into the University to remain calm as it says the delay in the release of 2017/2018 admission list is being addressed by management.
The Chairman of the University of Ilorin Admissions Committee, Prof. O. T. Mustapha, made this appeal in an interview with UNILORIN Bulletin following the anxiety caused by the delay in concluding the admission exercise.
He explained that even though the University is through with the selection process, the
release of the list was being delayed by the newly introduced Central Admission Processing
System (CAPS) by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which makes the
process a little cumbersome.
Prof. Mustapha said, “As far as the University admission is concerned, at the University
level, we are already through with the short-listing. But the new system introduced by JAMB
requires that when you are through with admissions, instead of going to Abuja to mark the
admitted candidates manually, you have to do it electronically. But this time around, we tried as
much as possible to do that, but we have encountered some challenges with internet services, particularly when we tried to upload the list of our admitted candidates, which is very bulky”.
He then appealed to the candidates, saying, “They will have to be calm. Nobody is trying
to jeopardize the process. It is just a small problem and I don’t think that it is insurmountable.
We will definitely overcome it. We are just worried about its effects on the academic calendar.
So, we are working round the clock to correct this. We are concerned. We are trying our best.
We have not been folding our arms. In fact, we are thinking of moving to another location where
the strength of the internet facility would be enhanced.”
Expressing the concern of the University management, Prof. Mustapha said, “This is the
first time we are using this electronic method. In the past, all you have to do after completing
your admission exercise was to go down to Abuja and mark your candidates manually. Now, we
went to Abuja and JAMB refused to let us mark manually. They wanted it done electronically.
So, we had to come back and that was when we started loading the post-UTME scores and so
on.”
The Chairman, who was visibly worried about the low strength of internet facilities in the
University caused by external providers, said that the situation is not peculiar to the University of
Ilorin alone.
He said, “Once we have enhanced internet facilities, and if probably, JAMB can strengthen its own bandwidth, I think the problem will stop.”
Prof. Mustapha said that the University of Ilorin has met the requirements set by JAMB, including deadline for submission of admissible students.
University of Ilorin currently is celebrated nationwide as the Nigeria’s number one most patronised institution of higher learning and, The DEFEBDER’s findings revealed, the university has continued to open for academic academic activities for 17 uninterrupted years.
A source in Ilorin assured The DEFENDER that, “It has always been great, prompt and timely in the tenure of Oloyede, Ambali built on that strength, tremendously too, and it will never go different negatively in this time of Abdulkareem. All of these are quality based admistrative materials that are characterised by success.”
