The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede, has said that parents would no longer be allowed to choose courses for their children living with disabilities seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Mr Oloyede, a professor, was reacting to the comment by the National President, National Association of Visually Impaired, Stanley Onyebuchi, at the First National Conference On Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria.
The onference, which began in Abuja on Monday, was organised by JAMB’s Equal Opportunity Group, led by Peter Okebukola, a professor.
