The National Coordinator, JAMB Equal Opportunity Group, Prof. Peter Okebukola, has said that most Nigerian universities lack the right facilities to support visually impaired people.

Okebukola said  “We expect that our universities should have the physical and emotional environment that is supportive of these candidates. But most of our universities don’t have the facilities to support visually impaired people.”  on the sidelines of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for Special Candidates held recently at the Distance Learning Centre, University of Lagos, Akoka.

Calling on the Federal Government to keep supporting JAMB in terms of the methodology for improving the conduct of the UTME for visually impaired candidates and in other ways .

Noting that 320 visually impaired admission seekers took the 2018 UTME in Lagos, Okebukola also said there was an improvement in the conduct of the examination in terms of logistics.

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