JAMB can’t force candidates to remove hijab – Court
“The action of the Defendants forcing the Claimant to remove her hijab adorned for religious purposes and making the removal a pre-condition for her to write the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Examination violates the Claimant’s fundamental human right guaranteed and provided in Section 38, subsections (1), (2) and (3) of the Constitution,” Justice Adekunle held.
By Luminous Jannamike The Oyo State High Court has ruled that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, cannot force female candidates sitting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to remove their hijab before taking the examination, declaring the practice unconstitutional, illegal, null and void.
Justice Adekunle declared: “Any rules made by the Defendants making removal of hijab used for religious purposes by any female candidate of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Examination is illegal, null, void and a contradiction to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended).
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