In the process, the University of Ilesa lost the golden opportunity of getting the prospective students who are interested in studying at the University of Ilesa to register through the JAMB UTME which is now closed for the 2023/24 academic session. At best now, what the University could enrol as its maiden students will be from the dredges which JAMB is unable to place in their universities of first choice or what Yoruba call ‘ashaku.’