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Northern Candidates No Longer Need Differential Treatment, El-Rufai Tells JAMB

Northern Candidates No Longer Need Differential Treatment, El-Rufai Tells JAMB

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that giving Northern candidates preferential treatment when it comes to getting admissions to Nigerian universities has not helped the region, but has rather “made our people lazy.”

The governor said this during a live appearance on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily Monday.

He said: “The North has always been behind in education, we’ve continuously been the disadvantaged region right from independence even though we’re given preferences, JAMB scores and all that. That has not helped, in fact, it has made our people lazy.

“Against this differential JAMB and FG (Federal Government) scores, I think people should be encouraged to work hard and compete and we’re prepared to make our children in Kaduna State to be competitive, not only in the state, but globally.

“The schools are closed now because, on the advice of security agencies, they need a couple of months to undertake massive security operations. They’re doing that. We’re confident that from the next two weeks, we’ll start the gradual reopening of schools.

“We’ve moved many of our students in rural areas that we’re not sure we can protect to urban schools, thereby increasing the congestion in urban schools that we can protect.”

“The continuous closure of schools is exactly what bandits and Boko Haram want and we’re not going to let them win but we must put the safety of our children and teachers first,” the governor said.

He therefore asked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to make the cut-off mark scores of students from the north to be the same as their counterparts in the south.

 

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