The Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU,Ile-Ife in Osun state, and the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, with forty-one other prominent universities owned by the Federal, State and Private individuals and organizations have minimum cut-off marks of between 180-200 for admissions into their respective institutions, the Economic Confidential reports. Jimmy Garoppolo In a painstaking search and carefully computed data from Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, the National Universities Commission, various tertiary institutions in Nigeria, the computations of the Economic Confidential indicate that these higher institutions are regarded as Grade ‘A’ Universities of choice as they can accommodate students with minimum of 180-200 scores in JAMB tertiary matriculation examination. asics gel lyte 3 blu uomo
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