Tension in Unizik over JAMB cut off

www.odogwublog.com reports that there is tension now among prospective students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka (UNIZIK) on what the management would take as its cut off for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
This is coming on the legs of JAMB defending the 250 cut-off mark set by the University of Lagos for students wishing to gain admission to the university.
Vice Chancellor of Unizik, Prof Joseph Ahaneku as a stickler to quality may adopt higher JAMB rating for Unizik but if he wishes to stick to JAMB cut off , then the students would be happier as they are battling to score higher in Post-UTME.
The era of cheating and asking people to write JAMB or Post UTME for one in Unizik is over as Prof Ahaneku’s administration has deployed mechanism that nipped it in the bud.
According to JAMB, the decision of UNILAG was aimed at ensuring that Nigerian universities admit only the best candidates — in line with international best practices.
JAMB reiterated that the national cut-off mark of 180 for universities and the 150 cut-off mark for polytechnics, colleges of education and innovative enterprise institutions in the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination was a benchmark to set the tone for the 2015 admission exercise.
The spokesperson for JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement issued on Sunday, in Abuja, said the decision to have a nationally accepted cut-off mark was to serve as a guide and pruning mechanism to give tertiary institutions qualitative candidates to choose from.
He, however, said universities and other tertiary institutions were at liberty to go higher, but not lower, depending on their peculiarities and the performances of candidates that chose them.