Following the recommendations of the presidential commission on the rationalisation together with restructuring of its parastatals, headed past times Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, the federal authorities has finally approved the scrapping of only about of its agencies.
The commission had submitted its study to the president inwards Apr lastly year. Indications emerged lastly nighttime that the Federal Government resolved to flake its agencies next the completion of its study of the White Paper Committee report.
Among those scrapped are Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE), National Examination Council (NECO), Public Complaints Commission, National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) together with the Fiscal Mobilization together with Allocation Commission alongside others.
The Oronsaye commission had recommended the abolition of 38 agencies, the merger of 52 together with the reversion of xiv to departments inwards the ministries from which they were carved out, a motion the commission argued would salve the authorities to a greater extent than than N862 billion betwixt 2012 together with 2015 should its proposal live adopted.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 reliable authorities beginning confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo together with selected senior aides of the president had been coming together over the issue. It was inwards ane of such meetings held yesterday (Tuesday s April) that the lastly determination was eventually taken, which included the scrapping of only about agencies together with merging of others.
Under the novel organisation the Joint Matriculation together with Examination Board (JAMB) itself volition non live scrapped, but volition henceforth exclusively serve equally a clearing house.
Sources reveal that with the scrapping of the UTME, private universities inwards the province would forthwith comport their ain admission examinations together with acknowledge students spell JAMB volition laid upwardly together with ensure compliance to standards equally the clearing house.
The beginning said JAMB would live modeled along the trace of piece of occupation of Universities together with Colleges Admission Service (UCAS), the cardinal organisation through which applications are processed for entry into higher teaching inwards the United Kingdom.
According to the source, “Individual universities volition create their ain exam together with admission. If yous desire to apply to a university, yous create then but inwards social club non to receive got a province of affairs where ane individual gets multiple admission, JAMB acts equally a clearing identify to costless upwardly spaces. All the universities are costless forthwith to acknowledge students.”
Even though details were yet beingness worked out, it was learnt that government’s decision, was informed past times the quest to promote merit inwards admission into the nation’s universities because “...the stance is to ensure that the best students become to the best universities.”
The beginning farther disclosed that the president had equally good approved that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) is forthwith expected to receive got over the functions together with vast infrastructure of NECO, which forthwith ceases to exist. The sources confirmed that WAEC would forthwith comport 2 external examinations inwards a year, Jan together with November.
The Public Complaints Commission is to live merged with the Human Rights Commission, only equally NAPEP would equally good live scrapped together with replaced past times the National Agency for Job Creation together with Empowerment.
The Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation made far-reaching recommendations, which, it explained, were aimed at helping the authorities to final result a drastic reduction inwards the size of its bloated bureaucracy, eliminating duplication of functions together with bringing downwards the toll of governance.
The commission had submitted its study to the president inwards Apr lastly year. Indications emerged lastly nighttime that the Federal Government resolved to flake its agencies next the completion of its study of the White Paper Committee report.
Among those scrapped are Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE), National Examination Council (NECO), Public Complaints Commission, National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) together with the Fiscal Mobilization together with Allocation Commission alongside others.
The Oronsaye commission had recommended the abolition of 38 agencies, the merger of 52 together with the reversion of xiv to departments inwards the ministries from which they were carved out, a motion the commission argued would salve the authorities to a greater extent than than N862 billion betwixt 2012 together with 2015 should its proposal live adopted.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 reliable authorities beginning confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo together with selected senior aides of the president had been coming together over the issue. It was inwards ane of such meetings held yesterday (Tuesday s April) that the lastly determination was eventually taken, which included the scrapping of only about agencies together with merging of others.
Under the novel organisation the Joint Matriculation together with Examination Board (JAMB) itself volition non live scrapped, but volition henceforth exclusively serve equally a clearing house.
Sources reveal that with the scrapping of the UTME, private universities inwards the province would forthwith comport their ain admission examinations together with acknowledge students spell JAMB volition laid upwardly together with ensure compliance to standards equally the clearing house.
The beginning said JAMB would live modeled along the trace of piece of occupation of Universities together with Colleges Admission Service (UCAS), the cardinal organisation through which applications are processed for entry into higher teaching inwards the United Kingdom.
According to the source, “Individual universities volition create their ain exam together with admission. If yous desire to apply to a university, yous create then but inwards social club non to receive got a province of affairs where ane individual gets multiple admission, JAMB acts equally a clearing identify to costless upwardly spaces. All the universities are costless forthwith to acknowledge students.”
Even though details were yet beingness worked out, it was learnt that government’s decision, was informed past times the quest to promote merit inwards admission into the nation’s universities because “...the stance is to ensure that the best students become to the best universities.”
The beginning farther disclosed that the president had equally good approved that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) is forthwith expected to receive got over the functions together with vast infrastructure of NECO, which forthwith ceases to exist. The sources confirmed that WAEC would forthwith comport 2 external examinations inwards a year, Jan together with November.
The Public Complaints Commission is to live merged with the Human Rights Commission, only equally NAPEP would equally good live scrapped together with replaced past times the National Agency for Job Creation together with Empowerment.
The Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Rationalisation made far-reaching recommendations, which, it explained, were aimed at helping the authorities to final result a drastic reduction inwards the size of its bloated bureaucracy, eliminating duplication of functions together with bringing downwards the toll of governance.
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