World University News: NIGERIA: Students protest against exorbitant exam fees
Writer: Tunde Fatunde
Date: 26 October 2008
Candidates seeking admission into the current 2008-09 academic session in Nigeria are unhappy with high entrance examination fees charged separately by universities and the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, or JAMB. One newspaper analysis calculated that the amount spent by students sitting both sets of examinations was a whopping US$119 million.