Professor Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has emerged Africa’s best advocate of equal opportunity in higher education in Nigeria.
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This was announced during a meeting held at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris after a due comparison of African countries that allowed people with disabilities to access higher education. Surprisingly, the end result of the comparison was Nigeria and the award automatically went to Professor Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board who also established the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group in 2017.
Since 2017, the Group has been able to record significant achievements such as processing over 2000 candidates with disabilities such as the blind, albinos, candidates with autism and Down syndrome through administration of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
