Stop Giving Preferential Scores To Northern Students – Governor El-Rufai Tells JAMB

Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB)to put an end to the favoritism scores to Northern students in its exams.

El Rufai maintained that the differential JAMB scores have made Northern students to develop a lazy attitude towards their academic work. He called for the standardization of the scores to meet the national and global standards to make students fit into every educational institution.

He made his disclosure in an interview on Channels Tv.

In his words:

“The North has always been behind in education, we’ve continuously been the disadvantaged region right from independence even though we’re given preferences, JAMB scores and all that. That has not helped, in fact, it has made our people lazy.

“Against this differential JAMB and FG (Federal Government) scores, I think people should be encouraged to work hard and compete and we’re prepared to make our children in Kaduna State to be competitive, not only in the state, but globally.

“The schools are closed now because, on the advice of security agencies, they need a couple of months to undertake massive security operations. They’re doing that. We’re confident that from the next two weeks, we’ll start the gradual reopening of schools.

“We’ve moved many of our students in rural areas that we’re not sure we can protect to urban schools, thereby increasing the congestion in urban schools that we can protect.

“The continuous closure of schools is exactly what bandits and Boko Haram want and we’re not going to let them win but we must put the safety of our children and teachers first.”