In response to all the recent wave of criticism that have been targetted at JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has launched a defence over his agency's decion to reduce the cut off marks for admission into universities to 120.

Prof. Oloyede explained that this decision was only set as a recommendation and that Universities were at liberty to set higher scores for their programmes.

He said: “With this decision, universities are not to go below the minimum 120 cut-off points adopted by the meeting for admissions. 

“What JAMB did was a recommendation, we only determined the minimum, whatever the various institutions determine as their admission cut-off mark is their decisions. The Senate and academic boards of universities should be allowed to determine their cut-off marks.”