27/06/2021
UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, ILORIN
Re: AYUBA, Nusebah Folashadeโs Admission Query
The attention of the management of the University of Ilorin has been drawn to a post making the rounds on some social media platforms concerning the perceived denial of admission to one of the 2020/2021 UTME candidates.
The post tried to whip up unnecessary sentiments through emotion-laden but uninformed write-up.
For the umpteenth time, we want to reiterate that the University of Ilorin is an equal opportunity espouser in all areas of its activities, including admission exercise. Our admissions policy protects the rights of all candidates who apply to the institution through the principle of equity, fair play and justice. In essence, qualified candidates donโt have to know anybody, either in our University or in higher quarters, to be given fair and just consideration.
The candidate under reference, AYUBA, Nusebah Folashade, with Registration No: 212 77550JA, who is an indigene of Kogi State, scored 268 in the UTME and has the following polled O Level Score: Maths = B3, English = C4, Chemistry = B3, Physics = C4, Biology = C5. Her Aggregate Score, which was derived from the computation of her UTME score (50%) and five best relevant Oโ Level grades (50%), is 60.17.
In our admission consideration, the following criteria come into play: National Merit, Catchment Area, and Educationally Less Developed States. In other words, for any candidate to be admitted, he/she must meet at least one of these three criteria.
For Ms Ayubaโs preferred course of study, Doctor of Optometry, the Merit Cut-off Point is 68.38; Catchment Areasโ Cut-off Point is 64.17, while Educationally Less Developed Statesโ Cut-off Point is 63.5. So, with an aggregate score of 60.17, it is clear that this candidate did not meet any of the set criteria.
Apart from her failure to meet the objective cut-off point, Ms Ayuba ranked 99th on the table of 394 qualified UTME candidates that picked Optometry as their preferred course of study. At the end of the exercise, 63 candidates were eventually offered admission. This means that there are 35 other Optometry candidates who performed better than Ms. Ayuba that didn't scale through.
We have taken the pains to go into this detail in order to clear all misgivings about our admission process and to demonstrate the transparency, sincerity and inherent openness in the process. It should be pointed out that processes on the JAMB Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) contain checks and balances that will not allow any candidate to be skipped if he/she is qualified for admission into a programme going by the set criteria.
Signed
Kunle Akogun
Director, Corporate Affairs
25th June, 2021