UTME: 4,216 candidates with disabilities enrolled into Nigerian universities in 10 years – Okebukola

No less than 4,216 candidates with disabilities person secured admittance into universities, polytechnics and colleges of acquisition crossed Nigeria successful the past 10 years done the involution of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG).

Chairman of JEOG and erstwhile Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, disclosed this on Wednesday during the 2026 JAMB National Stakeholder Engagement connected Inclusivity and Higher Education held astatine the NUC office successful Abuja.

The JAMB Equal Opportunity Group is an inaugural established by the outgoing JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, to supply candidates with disabilities adjacent entree to the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and admittance into tertiary institutions.

“In the past 10 years, we person had 4,216 candidates with antithetic categories of disabilities enactment successful the programme. On the average, astir 53 per cent of them summation admittance into universities, polytechnics and colleges of acquisition each year,” helium said.

Okebukola stressed that cand...