Admission: 4,216 Candidates With Disabilities Benefit From JAMB Inclusion Programme

Over 4,216 candidates with disabilities have secured admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education across Nigeria in the last 10 years through the intervention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG).

Chairman of JEOG and former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday during the 2026 JAMB national stakeholder engagement on inclusivity and higher education.

JAMB Equal Opportunity Group is an initiative established by the outgoing JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, to provide candidates with disabilities equal ...