“However, government in its magnanimity, graciously directed that we remit about N5.6 billion and use the balance for restructuring of the board’s headquarters to meet up with its international status. We, therefore, want to appreciate the governing board of JAMB led Dr Emmanuel Ndukwe for the tremendous support in ensuring that the current administration’s vision of transparency and accountability as fully embraced JAMB is sustained. The Ndukwe-led board had, within its short period of inauguration, contributed immensely in some ground breaking innovations. One of such innovations is the quick remittance of the 2018 surplus. Whatever candidates pay for JAMB’s examination is a trust and must be accounted for. The board, though not a revenue generating agency, will continue to be judicious with resources at its disposal,” he said.

“The board is thinking of how to ensure that candidates benefitted from the surplus. We are currently looking at a number of ways to enhance the conduct of the examination where candidates will benefit way of conducive environment in writing the examination. We are also looking at putting more mechanism in place that will ensure absolute equity and fairness in the selection of candidates through enhanced technology as currently being done the Central Admission Process Selection (CAPS),” he said.