- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reacted to the harassment experienced by a female Hijab-wearing UTME candidate
- The JAMB Head of Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin said some officers had been sanctioned over the harassment incident
- Benjamin said JAMB has no protection barring UTME candidates from wearing attire extraordinary to their religious persuasions
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Ejigbo, Lagos converse – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sanctioned some officers over the harassment of a female Hijab-wearing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate.
The incident took space at the Bafuto Institute, Ile-Iwe Bus End within the Ejigbo space of Lagos converse.
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The Head of Public Affairs of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a observation on Sunday, April 21.
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Why UTME candidate used to be asked to put off the Hijab
As reported by The Punch, the feminine candidate used to be allegedly asked to put off her headcover for the length of the accreditation route of sooner than being allowed into the examination hall.
Benjamin said the incident is a made of the misplaced precedence of about a of JAMB’s accredited partners or officers who claimed lack of information of the Board’s guidelines on accreditation.
How Hijab-wearing candidate used to be accredited
He said the Board deeply regretted the incident, in step with the Guardian.
Per the observation, the feminine candidate used to be later allowed in after the favored tests along with her hijab after the sphere used to be addressed by a senior JAMB authentic.
JAMB sanctions officers over harassment of Hijab-wearing candidate
“Nevertheless, since lack of information of the legislation is never any longer an excuse, the officers had been precisely sanctioned to encourage as a deterrent to others, who may perhaps perhaps wish to toe the identical line going forward.
“It’s noteworthy of worth that the Board, as a nationwide institution, has no protection barring candidates from wearing the religious paraphernalia extraordinary to their religious persuasions as these are the info of day after day life in Nigeria, which every person will have to had been conversant in by now.”
UTME candidates with glitches shall be rescheduled
Meanwhile, Business City reported that JAMB said candidates who encountered glitches for the length of the ongoing 2024 UTME shall be rescheduled.
The JAMB registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede said the technical factors are because of the the diploma of pattern in diverse parts of the country.
He appealed to candidates no longer to disrupt others from writing if they trip any technical factors for the length of the exam as they may perhaps be rescheduled to write down the exam.
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