The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has rolled out modalities for the absorption of returnee students from war-torn countries into Nigerian universities.
The board’s Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin in a statement said the modalities were follow-ups to the high-level meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, JAMB, Nigeria in Diaspora Commission , National Universities Commission and other critical stakeholders.
He said the meeting was on the integration of returnee Nigerian students from war-torn countries into the nation’s tertiary education system.
He quoted the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede while presenting the modalities as saying that it was imperative to hold talks with the Vice Chancellors following the peculiarities of each university and the variation in the responses received from them on the matter.
According to the latest Advisory on procedures for emergency transfers of returning students, each of them is mandated to do a retroactive registration with the education ministry.
”They are to visit the returnee application page on IBASS as accessible from the JAMB website, where the returnee students would upload their registration slips, complete the transfer of personal data.
”The personal data would include their name, NIN, telephone number, active e-mail account, current university, country, city of study and programme, year and current level of study, JAMB said.
