The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has awarded N710 million to 6 tertiary establishments throughout this yr’s Nationwide Tertiary Admissions Efficiency Benefit Award (NATAP-M).
Talking on how the winners emerged, JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, mentioned the board judged the establishments by 5 standards.
He mentioned this in Abuja on Tuesday on the 2025 coverage assembly on admissions into tertiary establishments and the fifth version (2023 and 2024) of the Nationwide Tertiary Admissions Efficiency-Benefit Award (NATAP-M).
The Information Company of Nigeria (NAN) remembers that yearly since 2018, JAMB had awarded prizes to tertiary establishments for compliance with its admission processes.
For the 2025 tertiary establishments’ award, the Ahmadu Bello College (ABU), Zaria, emerged as the general winner with 14 factors and was awarded N500 million.
The College of Ilorin emerged the Runner Up with 9 factors and was awarded N75 million.
Nile College of Nigeria, a personal college in Abuja, emerged the Second Runner-up with six factors and N25 million.
The winners have been introduced with dummy cheques through the award ceremony.
Oloyede mentioned the factors for choice included the establishment with the best variety of candidates in search of admission from it and one which admits candidates from each state of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Different standards, he mentioned, have been the establishments that admitted not lower than 1,500 candidates in whole, and one with the fairest distribution of admitted candidates amongst its catchment states (all states in case of specialized army establishments).
Additionally, establishments with the best variety of admissions of international candidates, essentially the most improved in gender stability and essentially the most compliant with tips for admissions via the Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) have been different standards used.
The NATAP-M awards even have sectoral awards for Polytechnic, Schools of Training and Innovation Enterprise Establishments (IEI).
Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna emerged one of the best polytechnic with an mixture of 10 factors and the Federal Faculty of Training, Zaria one of the best Faculty of Training, with an mixture of 18 factors, each receiving N50 million every.
In the meantime, the PEFTI Movie Institute, Lagos emerged as one of the best IEI, with an mixture of 4 factors, clinching a N10 million prize. (NAN)
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