There was nothing to sanitise in UI’s admission process prior to the 1978 centralisation. I don’t know who or how old you are, but it would be a great disservice to the country for you to misinform the Nigerian public with this kind of treatise. Granted that UNILAG had its Owosho scandal and ABU had always instituted its UME remedial programme to address educational peculiarities of the north by admitting candidates without School Certificate, UI and Ife were never found wanting. There are ABU-made professors today who never had WASCE talkless of ‘A’ level certificates but just went through that admission process. There must be a return to “A” levels as minimum qualification for admission to restore the old glory.
JAMB is just an extension of ABU UME aimed at mass admission and allocation of prospective students as the case may be to solve the educational imbalance in the country to the detriment of good quality and standard of graduate turn outs.
The fact remains though that university education is not for all. It is meant for those that are qualified, have the aptitude and are well-disposed to acquire tertiary education. As a matter of fact, some do not even need it and are better of with vocational skills. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world saw no need for a university education early enough and opted out. For a country like Nigeria at this point of our socio-economic and technological development, vocational education should be our national focus. That is what is sustaining and giving GERMANY the edge over all other European countries today. We can not run away from it because it is the stark reality.