Universities demand N1.5m in medical courses’ racket

Nigerian universities are illegally asking qualified applicants to medical courses to pay N1.5 million each before being offered admission, BusinessDay has found. Though the applicants are qualified for admission, having beaten the universities’ cut-off points for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the post-UTME, they are still compelled to comply. Applicants who are unable to pay the humongous amount of money will automatically be denied admission. Seventeen-year-old Onyinye Onuchukwu rues the day she applied to