Fifty Ikoyi prison inmates registered to write 2018 UTME

The Principal, Ikoyi Prisons School, Idris Ibikunle has disclosed that no fewer than 50 prison inmates will sit for the forthcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

This, however, follows the registration of 59 inmates for the 2017 UTME, which 35 had their results released already and are at various stages of admission placement to tertiary institutions.

According to Ibikunle, the school has prepared the inmates well for the examination as officials of the facility have stepped up efforts in ensuring an excellent performance.

He said, “Right now, we are preparing about 50 of the inmates for the next UTME and by what I see, they are very determined to excel. We are yet to enrol them for the examination proper; we want to give a little more room for others interested so we can do the enrolment once. I am optimistic that we will enrol more than 50 of the inmates for the examination.”

The principal also said 40 inmates were being prepared for the newly introduced 2018 January/February diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates.

Ibikunle maintained that prisons officials were committed to ensuring that the inmates had nothing to lose, academically, despite their incarceration.