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By FUNMILAYO ADEYEMI
The Ministry of Education has announced that all admissions into unity colleges are now fully automated and strictly conducted within the approved capacity of each school.
This, the ministry, said was to eliminate previous challenges of overstretched facilities.
This is contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday by Mrs Folasade Boriowo, Director, Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education
Boriowo said that the ministry has released admissions into the unity colleges across the country.
According to her, the current admission exercise covers 80 conventional Federal Unity Colleges for Junior Secondary School 1.
She added that admission into the remaining 42 Federal Technical Colleges under the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programme would be released in due course.
Boriowo said that the reform was expected to streamline the admission process, improve accountability and uphold the highest educational standards across federal unity colleges nationwide.
She said that admission results could now be accessed on the Ministry’s official website, www.education.gov.ng (NAN)
