The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it has captured about 1.16 million candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, stated this Saturday, during a monitoring tour of some Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Abuja.
Oloyede, during the tour, visited CBT centres located at Total Child International School, Dutse, JAMB Abuja zonal office, Life Camp, Global Distance Learning Institute and Sascon International College, Abuja.
During the visit, he reiterated that the board would not extend the deadline for the 2023 UTME registration, even as he warned centres against extortion of candidates.
The sale of the 2023 UTME commenced on Saturday, January 14, 2023, and is set to close on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
“Registration is going on well except some of these schools. UTME is not a school-based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what that school, Stella Maris is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up messing up the telephone number of the candidates,” Oloyede said.
He said it was important to keep active phone numbers of candidates for ease of contacts even after the UTME, and warned CBT centres to avoid extorting parents.
“And that is a way of extorting the parents, and we will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that. One of the reasons is that we will tell evey CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchase of pin and bulk registration so if a centre sells more than one pin to a source or collect money for more than one pin from a source, then we will sanction such centre,” he said.
He therefore, urged candidates to report cases of extortion, saying that there is a code for candidates to reach the board when they come across any fraudulent practice at any CBT centre, promising a handsome reward for the whistleblower.
