Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has remarked that the different cut-off marks given to states by the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board, (JAMB) is dividing the nation. He emphasized that the low cut-off marks given for admission into northern universities is making northern youths ‘lazy’.
Governor El-Rufai stated this during the plenary session on “Rethinking Sub-National Competitiveness” at the ongoing Nigerian Economic Summit.
He further said that despite the advantage of education to the Northerners in Nigeria, the region still have the highest number of out of school children.
