The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has appealed to striking lecturers to resume lectures, adding however that delaying decisions on the ASUU debacle amounted to postponing the evil day.
Oloyede soke on Saturday while monitoring the 2022 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
Over 42,000 candidates participated in the exercise conducted in 45 centres in five states in the country.
The examination was organized for candidates who could not participate in the nationwide test held in May.
However, Oloyede appealed to parties to reach a truce to ensure affected students return to the classrooms.
The registrar said even if ASUU called off the strike, it would not prevent it from happening again.
His words, “I believe that what we should do is to look at the system and take some hard decisions.
“If we do not take such decisions, then we may be postponing the evil day.”
The federal government has yet to reach an agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over pressing issues including the use of UTAS  payment platform instead of IPPIS as well as the implementation of the earlier agreement signed by the two parties.
The industrial action started on February 14, 2022, and the government insists the figure being demanded is outrageous.
Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo said ASUU knew the clear picture.
“ASUU’s proposal is N1.2trillion. Their former N412blllion was 50 percent of the total wage structure of the federal government.
“I will tell parents and everybody, go and beg ASUU”, the minister advised.