By JOHN ONAH, Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board would be holding its second edition of the National Tertiary Admissions Performance Merit Award today by 12noon. It will be streamed live on Facebook. Five winners would go home with 75m each. The page is fully optimized now
In a statement made available to NATIONAL ACCORD this morning by the Spokesman of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, anyone can search for any of the following keywords and the page will be index as the topmost on the list of searches.
* NATAP-M AWARD
* NATAP-M AWARD * NIGERIA
National Tertiary Admission Performance Award
The move is an effort to promote excellence in tertiary institutions, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has increased by 150 per cent, the value of its National Tertiary Admissions’ Performance-Merit Award (NATAP-M Award).
“We are set to hold our 2019 NATAP-M Award which is a yearly ceremony.
”This year’s award is the second edition and it is for the year 2019.
“Each of award-winning institution will receive 150 per cent increase as against the N25 million awarded in 2018.
”The 2018 edition was carried out in 2019,” Benjamin said.
According to Benjamin, the award is in five categories namely: the most subscribed institutions by candidates, the most national institution in terms of admission spread and the institution with the highest number of admission of international students.
He listed the other categories as the most improved institution in intake of female students and the most compliant institution in keeping within the guidelines, rules and regulations of admissions.
Benjamin said that the board would continue to support excellence in tertiary institutions to ensure that Nigerians desirous of tertiary education would provided with quality education.
Recall that University of Ilorin, University of Maiduguri, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Rivers State University and Kaduna Polytechnics benefitted from the maiden edition of NATAP-M.