The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has constituted a seven-man committee to audit the utilisation of grants for the take-off of projects in the 12 new federal universities established between 2011 and 2013.
In 2016, only two states, Borno and Rivers states received their shares of the intervention funds while only 18 out of the 36 states of the federation and the FCT accessed the UBEC matching grant in 2015.
The Federal Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in the tertiary education sub-sector have agreed to retain the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, screening, but Universities must not charge beyond N2,500 as the fee for the exams.
