Coronavirus pandemic in the nation has foster a great challenges to the education sector, the virus has caused the close of schools in order to contain and maintain precautionary measures by students and not to be infected with the deadly virus. The pandemic virus makes universities not to release their admission screening form on time.

 

 

 

Just after the federal ministry of education, Adamu Adamu orders the reopening of all Unity Schools in the country on Friday 2nd, October, the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, released a special bulletin for the registration of 2020/2021 Post-Utme/Direct Entry Screening Exercise.

 

 

 

 

The registration for the admission exercise would holds from Monday 12th October to Saturday 14th November, 2020.

Candidates who are eligible to register for the screening exercise are those candidates with UTME score of 180 above, and candidate who chose Admadu Bello University as their first choice.

In the bulletin, Direct Entry candidates are required only to pay for the screening fee as well as upload a scanned copy of their GCE advance level, IJMB, NCE or Diploma result. 

 

The announcement was welcomed with a great joy by boh students, parents, and Schools in all States across Nigeria, but undergraduates of the schools under the leadership of Senior Staff Association Of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) are still unhappy as the bodies, SSANU and NASU made the announcement that they will embark on a two-week strike from Oct. 5 to Oct. 19.

The announcement was made due to the inconsistencies of the integrated Personnel and Payroll information System (IPPIS) in the payment of salaries and non-payment of earned allowances to members, said the National President SSANU, Samson Ugwoke and General Secretary NASU, Peter Adeyemi in a statement on Friday.

These two bodies, SSANU and NASU are joining ASUU in the ongoing strike due to non-payment of minimum wages, retirement benefits, poor funding of state universities, and so on.

The issue of strike is causing more delay in reopening of several universities, and this is causing Undergraduates to be Unhappy after a long stay at home.

There is yet to be a conclusion or agreement between the Federal Government, and these bodies, ASUU, SSANU, and NASU, as the bodies are already on strike.