JAMB orders ABU to offer Girl Medicine
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB) has ordered Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) to admit a female candidate from Niger State, Thomas Goodness Shekwobyalo medicine instead of the anatomy she was offered.
The candidate had alleged that she was denied admission for medicine because she is a Christian and that she scored 309 to come top in Niger State but religious factor was used against her.
Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede at a review meeting with stakeholders from the university expressed that admission should have been given out on merit rather than on state basis.
In lieu of this, he ordered that ABU change her course to medicine from anatomy and the candidate should determine whether she wants it or not. It was reported that the female candidate and her family were invited for the meeting but they refused to show up.
