Nigeria, July 9 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has awarded N710 million to six tertiary institutions during this year's National Tertiary Admissions Performance Merit Award (NATAP-M).

Every year since 2018, JAMB awards prizes to tertiary institutions for compliance with its admission processes.

The winners were presented with dummy cheques during the award ceremony shortly after the 2024 policy meeting on admissions into tertiary institutions, also convened by JAMB in Abuja on Tuesday.

Speaking on how the winners emerged, JAMB Registrar Is-haq Oloyede, a professor, said the board judged the institutions by five criteria.

The criteria include the institution with the highest number of candidates seeking admissio...