Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that the low cut-off mark of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) needed for admission into Northern universities is making youths in the region lazy.
This was made known by the Governor during a plenary session on “Rethinking Sub-National Competitiveness” at the ongoing National Economic Summit in Abuja.
He added that even though many Nigerians think the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) is building the nation with its different cut-off mark for different states, it is rather dividing the education system which seems not good.
He also asked rhetorically if the Northerns has caught up with candidates from other region even though JAMB is giving them lower cut-off marks.
He affirmed that the northerners are at advantage as the low JAMB cut-off mark is making the Northern youths lazy rather than encouraging them.
“I am from the north but we have suffered educational disadvantage and the JAMB has given us lower cut-off mark to catch up, have we caught up?
“It is making people lazy,” Governor El-Rufai noted.
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