 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAM, has set the cost of Mac for admission into the nation's universities for the 2022-23 academic session at 140 and above. The JAM registrar, Professor Ishak Oloyade, disclosed this at the presentation at the 2023 policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions and awards held on Saturday in Abuja. He added that the board had approved 100 as the cost of Mac for polytechnics and colleges of education across the country. He, however, said universities are at liberty to decide individual cost of Macs, but insisted that no university would be allowed to admit any candidate who scores below 140. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board must ensure the sanctity and integrity of the examinations at all times, and that is of one leg. On the second leg, the institutions themselves should be bastions of excellence where admission decisions can be strictly under great guidelines without compromise. I've seen that we've accepted from the 2023 policy meeting that the minimum admissible score to get into any Nigerian university is 140. Please, for the 15 private universities that chose between 120 and 130, the 140 is sacrosan to the extent that you bring any candidates that JAM system will not recognize 139.5.