Declining infrastructure challenge, administrative clash between Joint Admissions Matriculation Board and universities, inadequate teaching aids and unavailability of adequate manpower, among others, will join forces to deny over 143,000 candidates admission in eight universities in the ongoing 2017/2018 academic session.
The scenario, which could get worse, is a confirmation of the fears raised last week by the National Universities Commission, that admission crisis was inevitable in the country.
Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, while appearing before the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and Tertiary Education Trust Fund last Wednesday, informed that only about 30 per cent of the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2017 would be offered admission, even as it pointed out that there was a regulatory conflict between the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board and the universities offering admission to candidates.
At the University of Ibadan, of the 62,000 candidates applying for post-UTME, only 3, 500 candidates will be admitted.
The scenario at the University of Benin is no better than, of the 30,000 applicants, the institution only has 10, 000 carrying capacity.
While 25,000 candidates sat for the post-UTME exam at Lagos State University LASU), the institution currently has room for only 3, 500 freshmen.
At the Federal University of Technology, of the 13, 500 candidates that indicated interest to start their tertiary education journey there, only 3, 500 will be offered admission.
For Ambrose Ali University, out of 15,000 candidates, that applied to the institution, it said it would only admit 8,000; Elizade University will only offer admission to 400 out of 1,000 eligible candidates, while Covenant University will accept 1,704 candidates, out of 3,552 candidates.
A situation where students in Senior Secondary School One would be competing with final year students to secure university admissions should be discouraged.
In the same vein, Adegbenro Adebanjo, of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, said since the government directed all specialized institutions to stop offering management, FUTA could only admit candidates into its core courses.
One of the parents that faulted the modus operandi employed by individual universities in offering admission, Mrs. Akomolafe, whose son, accused some universities of employing underhand dealings in the process.
"The historian added:" ODL is the way out, the second thing is that universities must raise the percent for value to 65-79 per cent, in which case if you are going to get people into the system, you have to get the best, make admissions so competitive.
There is no state in Nigeria that does not have a federal university, so why do not you go to your own state and attend one if you must attend a federal university? In the same vein, there is no state that does not have a state university, if you must attend a university, go to your own state university.
Adeyewa, who is also the vice chancellor, Redeemer's University, State, Osun State, said it was not true that universities were defrauding the public through post-UTME screening.
"In fact, during our AVCNU conference, a vice chancellor revealed how he used the money from the screening to do something good for the university. So, most of these institutions use proceeds from screening to embark on good project for the school, were it not so, we would not support it. "
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