{"id":77745,"date":"2025-10-30T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77745"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:08:26","slug":"jamb-delegation-walks-out-on-lawmakers-over-open-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/30\/jamb-delegation-walks-out-on-lawmakers-over-open-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMB Delegation Walks Out on Lawmakers Over Open Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tension flared at the National Assembly on Wednesday as a delegation from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), walked out of a House of Representatives hearing after lawmakers refused to hold the session behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Director Mufutau Bello, left the meeting convened by the House Committee on Basic Education and Examination Bodies, which was reviewing JAMB\u2019s 2023\/2024 budget performance.<\/p>\n<p>Committee Chairman, Hon. Oboku Oforji (PDP-Bayelsa), condemned the walkout as \u201cunfortunate and unacceptable,\u201d warning that the National Assembly would not tolerate any attempt to undermine its oversight powers.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that JAMB\u2019s Registrar had ignored three prior invitations to appear with detailed financial records, prompting a fresh seven-day ultimatum for compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Other lawmakers, including Hon. Awaji-Inombek Abiante (PDP-Rivers) and Hon. Rodney Ambaiowei (PDP-Bayelsa), criticized JAMB\u2019s insistence on excluding journalists, stressing that transparency demands public accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has rescheduled the session for Tuesday, warning that failure of the Registrar to appear could trigger constitutional sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Tension flared at the National Assembly on Wednesday as a delegation from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), walked out of a House of Representatives hearing after lawmakers refused to hold the session behind closed doors. The team, led by Director Mufutau Bello, left the meeting convened by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77747,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77745\/revisions\/77747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}