The Federal Ministry of Education says it will enforce national character for admission of students into Federal Unity Colleges.
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu represented by the Permanent Secretary, Mr Sonny Echono , made this known during a monitoring visit to some entrance examination centres in Abuja on Saturday.
Adamu said students will now be made to make choices from each geo-political zones, saying the idea was to encourage students to have opportunities to choose any region of their choice.
The minister noted that government had planned to increase the carrying capacity of the Unity Schools to 30,000 to accommodate new stream of schools and more candidates who were desirous of attending the colleges.
He noted that the carrying was increased to about 26,000 in 2020 which did not include the six new Technical Colleges.
He added that plans are also underway to establish five more colleges in the country to bring the total number of Unity Colleges to 115.
“We know that there are security challenges across the Federation but we are working assiduously to address that.
“Government has been kind to the sector and the National Assembly has continued to appropriate funds for us to provide security infrastructure in our schools.
“So, the Federal schools are actually more secured than most others. On the strength of that, we want parents to allow their children enrol for the schools; let them know this country and meet other people,” he said.
According to him, the examination is taking place at a very difficult time the chief examiner is not here with us, but as people of faith, we say all is well and we are trusting God to comfort the family and the rest of us in the Education family for the loss of the Registrar of NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma.
