As the deadline for the 2022 admissions by the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board involves a detailed, universities with excellent admissions will work in direction of a merger, Sunday PUNCH has learnt.

JAMB had throughout the 2022 coverage assembly held in Abuja fastened the deadline of December 31,2022 for the conduct of the 2022/2023 admissions.

Stakeholders on the assembly had cited the continued strike by the Educational Employees Union of Universities as a figuring out issue.

Saturday PUNCH had just lately reported that no fewer than 400,000 admission quotas weren’t utilised by universities throughout the 2021/2022 admission session; knowledge from JAMB additionally revealed that there have been numerous excellent admissions from the 2020/2021 session.

Commenting on the event, JAMB famous that majority of the colleges suspended admission processes on account of incessant strikes.

Talking with our correspondent on the backlog of admissions, the Secretary-Common of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, Prof Yakubu Ochefu, mentioned, “Sure, the admissions shall be merged.”

ASUU had on Monday, February 14, 2022 launched into a strike.

The union had blamed the failure of the federal government to satisfy its calls for that led to the suspension of the 2020 strike.

A few of the calls for embrace the discharge of revitalisation funds for universities; launch of earned allowances for lecturers; renegotiations of the ASUU/FG 2009 settlement; and the discharge of the white paper report of visitation panels to universities, amongst others.

Although the federal government had responded by inaugurating a committee headed by Emeritus Professor Nimi Briggs, negotiations didn’t result in options, which led to the declaration of an indefinite strike by the union.

The strike has but to be known as off eight months after.

In the meantime, the Dad and mom/Stakeholders’ Discussion board of the Benue State College, Makurdi, has appealed to ASUU members within the establishment to tug out of the nationwide  physique to allow them to meet up with collected educational calendar years.

The attraction was contained in a press release by the Public Relations Officer of the college, Mr Tser Vanger, on Saturday in Makurdi, in keeping with the Information Company of Nigeria.

The assertion quoted the PSF chairperson, Mrs Keziah Agundo, who expressed concern concerning the unutilised educational calendar months, defined that the pullout would allow the lecturers to cut back the collected workload.

She mentioned the 2020 and 2021 undergraduate programmes had but to be matriculated, whereas the 2022 Unified Matriculation Tertiary Examination admission was ongoing.

In keeping with the assertion, the Vice-Chancellor of the college, Prof Joseph Iorapuu, known as for the resumption of educational actions within the establishment.

He defined that many of the grievances of the lecturers bordered on funding.

The assertion additionally indicated that the assembly was attended by high administration workers of the college, together with the BSU department Chairman of ASUU, Dr Victor Tarnongo, who promised to current the calls for of the PSF to the suitable authorities.