Varsity don, Ishaq Oloyede who remitted N30bn to FG has been reappointed as JAMB registrar.
66-year-old Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence brought innovations to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar on August 6, 2016.
Oloyede was on Friday reappointed by the President for another five-year term as registrar of JAMB, the agency established by the government in 1978 “to conduct matriculation examinations for entry into all universities polytechnics and colleges of education in the country and to place suitably qualified candidates in the available places in these institutions”.
During his first term, Oloyede, amongst other reforms, was noted to have significantly increased the remittances of JAMB to the Federal Government.
A top official at the Board told our source that though “JAMB is not a revenue-generating agency but under Prof Ishaq Oloyede in the last five years, JAMB remitted over N30bn to the Federal Government purse, an amount far above what was generated by the Board in its 40 years of existence, before Oloyede came on board.
"This was in spite of the fact that he reduced the fee for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination forms from N5,000 to N3,500 in 2017.”
“JAMB had remitted a total of N50m to the Federal Government between 1978 and 2016 before Oloyede,” the source posited.
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