The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has sanctioned some of its accredited officials for demanding that a hijab-wearing candidate at Saturday’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination remove her headgear.
The officials, at one of the examination centres in Lagos, had insisted that the candidate would not sit for the exam unless she removed her hijab.
Speaking in Abuja on Sunday, JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, said that the culpable officials acted in ignorance as JAMB had no policy barring candidates from wearing the religious paraphernalia peculiar to their faith.
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He also said since ignorance of the law is not an excuse, the officials have been sanctioned to serve as a deterrent to others.
The JAMB spokesman also noted that about 1.2 million candidates would have successfully taken the examination by Monday, April 22.
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