The Association of Arewa Yoruba Youths (AAYY) has appealed to the federal government to pay the JAMB Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration fees for all eligible students in the country to cushion the economic challenges being faced by parents.
The group noted that last year that about 1.8m students registered for JAMB, believing that this year would be around 2m in number that will register for the examination.
A statement issued by the association’s national coordinator, Lawal Hussein Taiye, said that if JAMB registration costs about N7,000 per each applicant, the total amount for two million applicants will be about N14 billion in the whole country.
According to Hussein, who is also the National Coordinator of Tinubu Mukeso group, “This will assist the parents and the less privileged students register for the examination in view of the present hardship many homes are going through in the country.”
He noted that the alleged federal government conditional cash transfer of N75,000 to individual would not really get to the real people that needed the money but may end up in the pockets of wrong or selfish politicians.
Hussein urged the federal government to come up with a more realistic and digital means of distributing the money so that those intended will benefit from the good intention of government to Nigerians.
According to him, “Paying JAMB examination fees for students this year’s will go a long way to enable many homes that cannot afford to register their students the opportunity to do so.”
The youths employ the President Bola Tinubu-led administration to come up with policies that would have direct bearings to many Nigerians that are finding it difficult to cope with present reality of life.
