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  • 2020 UTME: JAMB speaks on cancelling results

    2020 UTME: JAMB speaks on cancelling results

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has distanced itself from rumours in some quarters that results of its 2020 UTME taken on Saturday March 14 and Monday March 16 had been cancelled.

    Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Media and Information, made the clarification in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.

    According to him, such rumours are the handiwork of fraudsters and should be disregarded.

    He described the rumour as wicked, malicious and misleading.

    ”JAMB wishes to reassure all candidates who have written this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) so far that it has not canceled any of its examination or results.

    ”All results that have been released so far are intact and therefore there is no need for any panic whatsoever.

    ”Results of the 469,000 candidates who wrote on Monday have been released and candidates are to check their results by typing ‘RESULT’ and sending to 55019 with their unique telephone numbers for their scores.

    “They should not check their results on the internet as the portal had been shut, following attempt by some fraudsters to alter results of candidates.

    ”The board is already investigating the activities of these criminals and will not fail to take very drastic action against those that are behind this,” Benjamin said.

    Benjamin also responded to complaints by some candidates and stakeholders that the board was deliberately posting candidates to centres far away from their areas of residence.

    He said JAMB would not go beyond the carrying capacity of any centre all in a bid to fulfill the aspirations of candidates seeking to take the examination there.

    “Let me simply clarify here that JAMB does not post candidates just anywhere.

    “It is the candidates that chose their examination towns and once centres in that examination towns are filled, they are withdrawn from the net and candidates are then sent to other centres closest to such examination towns.

    ”It is not a deliberate act on our side,” he said.

  • No more biometric verification after examination – JAMB

    No more biometric verification after examination – JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says after its review of Saturday and Monday’s examination, it has, henceforth, suspend the conduct of biometric verification after candidates must have written the examination.

    The Board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday.

    Benjamin said that the verification of candidates before the commencement of the examination would, however, still obtain.

    According to him, without such verification there will be no examination for any candidate.

    He said candidates should feel free to go to their respective homes immediately they were through with their examination without filing out again for another verification.

    ”Candidates are no longer to wait to be signed out through another round of biometric verification after the examination, henceforth.

    “They should go straight home as soon as they leave the examination hall.

    ”However, in addition to this, as we also release the results for each day, we will like to urge all those concerned to note that we will not hesitate to withdraw any result found to be a product of cheating.

    ”What this means is that it is not yet over, especially for those that may have engaged in acts unexpected of our standard,” Benjamin said.

    The spokesman for the board also cautioned candidates writing the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to steer clear of any act capable of compromising the outcome of their participation.

    According to him, any candidate caught in any act with a view to discredit the examination process will face severe consequences.

    ”Some candidates who dared to test the board’s system had already found themselves in the hands of security operatives after they were caught in the act and arrested.

    ”They were trying to impersonate.

    ”Let me sound it clear that the board will continue to monitor the examination as it progresses, using technology to ensure that the process is in any way not compromised,” Benjamin said.

  • UTME candidates can print examination slips – JAMB

    UTME candidates can print examination slips – JAMB

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says prospective candidates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are free to print their examination slips for the Computer Based Test.
    The board’s UTME is scheduled to commence nationwide on Saturday, March 14.
    The Head, Media and Information of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos that the examination slips could be printed anywhere.
    According to him, candidates are expected to look out for the locations of their centres before their examination dates.
    “This is in order to avoid running around on the examination day trying to locate the centres, and as a result, getting to the centre late.
    “It should be stated clearly now that lateness to the examination will not be tolerated, no matter the excuse,” he said.
    Benjamin said that come 2021, the board’s portal would be integrated into that of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC).
    “Admission into our tertiary institutions are at the centre of national development, and therefore, any person or group of persons found to be truncating the national development process will not be assured
    “This integration will be done in such a way that anyone, be it from JAMB itself, institutions, the candidates or the general public, causing infractions of whatever type to our examination and its processes will be decisively dealt with immediately,” he said.
    Benjamin assured of the board’s committment in improving on the examination process.
    “The board will not relent in its effort, in ensuring that its processes are devoid of corrupt practices,” he assured.
    NAN reports that no fewer than 1.9 million candidates registered for this year’s examination nationwide.
  • JUST IN: Five JAMB staff, NSCDC operatives kidnapped in Kogi released

    JUST IN: Five JAMB staff, NSCDC operatives kidnapped in Kogi released

    The Kogi State Police Command has confirmed the release of all the five Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) staffs kidnapped along the Obajana-Kabba road, over a week ago.

    Also, all the five personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) that were kidnapped around Ajegwu, along the Ayingba road have secured their freedom.

    The police command, in a statment on Tuesday, stated that all the Kidnapped victims were hale and hearty and have reunited with their families.

    It however did not disclose if any ransom was paid to secure their freedom.

    Close family source of one of the released NSCDC operative confirmed their release.

    The freed JAMB workers were said to have been from the examination body’s head office in Abuja and were headed for Kogi West, ahead of the mock UTME which held last Tuesday while the NSCDC operatives were abducted on their way for a promotion examination in neighbouring Benue State.

  • Just in: Police speaks on kidnap of six JAMB officials, says one rescued

    Just in: Police speaks on kidnap of six JAMB officials, says one rescued

    The Kogi State Police Command on Monday said it has rescued one of the six kidnapped Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) staffs abducted on Sunday along the Obajana-Kabba road.

    The command’s spokeman, Mr. William Ayah, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), who confirmed the development, said that the police rescued one of the kidnapped staff while a thorough combing of the area is ongoing to rescue the five others

    The six workers were reportedly abducted along the Kabba-Obajana road, in Kogi State, over the weekend.

    A staff of the JAMB, who confirmed the incident, said the victims were from the Head Office in Abuja heading for Kogi West in preparation for Tuesday’s mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

    Details soon…

  • 2020 UTME: JAMB speaks on extending registration deadline

    2020 UTME: JAMB speaks on extending registration deadline

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated clearly that there will be no extension for the registration of candidates for both the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), and the Direct Entry (DE) as being speculated in some quarters.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the board as saying it has so far registered over 1.9 million prospective candidates for the 2020 UTME, with a few hours to the end of the exercise.

    “Let me state clearly here that there will be no extension for the registration of candidates for both the UTME and the direct entry (DE) as being speculated in some quarters.

    “Registration for this year’s examination ends by 12 midnight of Feb. 17, and that will be it for this year.

    “I like to say that the board is pleased with the way the exercise has gone so far and with this, we have registered over 1.9 million candidates. We have never recorded such a number before.

    “Without doubt, this figure is the highest that the board has ever recorded in the history of its examination.

    “We are equally happy as a board that we keep improving everyday in a bid to ensure effective management of our operations,” Dr Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s Head of Media and Information, said who in an interview with NAN on Sunday in Lagos.

    Speaking further, Benjamin noted that arrangements had also been concluded for the conduct of a hitch-free mock examination, scheduled for February 18 nationwide.

    According to him, a total of 669 out of the 747 centres across the country will be used for the conduct of the computer-based test (CBT).

    “One of the purposes of the mock examination is to test-run the facilities in these centres. Anyone of them that falls short of standard will automatically be delisted,” he said.

    He called for the support and cooperation of stakeholders so as to collectively deliver on the public responsibility.

    “On our part, our members of staff have been making sacrifices that could even involve their lives in a bid to ensure quality service delivery,” he assured.

    This year’s registration for the examination commenced on Monday, January 13 and will be concluded on February 17.

  • UTME: JAMB gives update on candidates who registered in blacklisted centres

    UTME: JAMB gives update on candidates who registered in blacklisted centres

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has called on candidates who registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in some recently blacklisted centres that there is nothing to worry about.

    The Board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday.

    He said that there was no need for the candidates to panic or consider going for another registration as this would automatically disqualify them from participating in the board’s forthcoming examination.

    NAN reports that the JAMB announced recently, that it had blacklisted 41 centres out of 692 accredited so far for the exercise nationwide, over issues bordering on registration cyber fraud, extortion and technical deficiency.

    “We want to call on all candidates who registered in all of these affected centres not to panic or start considering going for another registration elsewhere.

    “This will amount to double registration and with this, they stand automatically disqualified for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Their biometrics will indicate this on the day of the examination.

    “We want to let them know that indeed, they have nothing to fear, as the security agents are already verifying the culpability of all those involved and at the appropriate time, we will do the needful,” Benjamin said.

    Giving an update of the total number of candidates that had registered so far, he said that about 1.1 million have so far been captured at the exercise that commenced on Jan. 13.

  • JAMB hands over fraudulent CBT centre owners to security agents

    JAMB hands over fraudulent CBT centre owners to security agents

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) management on Wednesday handed over some owners of accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) centres to security agents for allegedly committing cybercrime.

    The board had accused about 38 CBT centres owners of infractions in the current registration of candidates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry examination, using the Virtual Private Network (VPN).

    The board invited the CBT operators to a meeting in Abuja on Wednesday from where they were cornered and handed over to the police.

    The meeting was attended by a representative from the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and other members of security agents as well as workers of the board.

    JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who addressed newsmen at the end of the meeting, said the board, in its continuous effort to fight examination malpractice, decided to focus more on CBT centres and the infractions they committed in the 2020 registration of candidates.

    Oloyede said some of their alleged crimes included submission of fictitious names and fake NIN numbers to the board by the centre owners as officers that would partake in the exercise.

    Some of the NIN numbers, the registrar added, included candidates’ numbers, duplicated and sent to the board as NIN for registration officers, who were later discovered to be non-existent.

    He explained that some of the CBT owners extended the VPN on their computers already registered by the board to extend the point of registration to undesignated locations.

    Oloyede said: “As far as I am concerned, a prima facie case has been established against all involved and they will go and give their statements to the police.

    “Our present technology enables us to track all registration officers, either ad hoc or permanent JAMB workers, through the National Identification Numbers (NIN).

    “All designated computers used for the registration have also been duly registered by the board, which enables tracking, and has successfully led us to crimes committed by some of the centres.

    “I appeal to candidates and their parents to go through the normal process of this exercise. Those who go to unaccredited centres, thinking it will work on their favour, would have themselves to blame.

    “Our position remains to have the incoming generation have a better society.”

    The registrar said all candidates who registered with the centres involved in the fraud may not be able to sit for the 2020 examinations because of the “illegal process” of their registration.

    But he said the board may consider the fate of the candidates in due course to help some of the innocent victims.

    Oloyede added that over 40 computers had been confiscated from their owners as evidence for the alleged crimes.

     

     

  • UTME: JAMB withdraws 11 centres’ licences

    UTME: JAMB withdraws 11 centres’ licences

    The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn licences from 11 centres for charging candidates exorbitant amount in the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) registration.
    Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the board, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday, at an interactive session with stakeholders.
    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the stakeholders comprises – the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp (NSCDC), banks, E-transact, Digital Partner Network, Interswitch and other service providers.
    Oloyede said that the proliferation of tutorial centres was a major concern as most of the centres engaged in fraud and corruption, during registrations and examinations.
    Oloyede said that charging above the stipulated N4,700 for the 2020 UTME registration was illegitimate and would only destroy the nation; as it was an act of fraud and corruption.
    He said that the exorbitant amount could have negative effects on the nation as well as having effects in destroying the system.
    ” Many people make illegitimate money from the examination and we will be destroying the nation, if we don’t get things right.
    ” Prior to 2018, we sell form for N5,000; but the federal government considers so many things and felt the money was much and in 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari decided that the cost should be slashed; which brought the cost to N3,500.
    ” Also, prior to this time, there were unscrupulous people selling as high as N10,000. We now democratised the sale of the forms, to make it available so that it will not be possible for those selling to hoard the forms.
    ” We felt the banks are overcrowded so we decided to expand the sale outlet, to bring in mobile money operators to cover all the registered banks.
    ” The effects of the expansion is that some people are still penetrating the banks, thereby increasing the cost of the sale of form, ” he said.
    Oloyede said that the board was magnanimous enough to pay the sum of N210 as commission for each of the forms sold, to about 2 million candidates nationwide, saying extorting the candidates was unjust.
    He added that the board was working closely with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), to ensure that any agent who sold above the prescribed fee was brought to book.
    He, therefore, called on NSCDC to assist in arresting any erring centre while also calling on candidates to report any centre involved in the act, to commandants in their various states.
    He also said that the board, in a bid to eradicate the problems and as well as to ensure tracking, had directed its agents selling forms to ensure they have the National Identity Number (NIN).
    The registrar listed some of the centres whose licences were withdrawn as: Federal Polytechnics, Mubi; Adamawa; Adazi-Nnukwu ICT/CBT for selling forms at N5,000, Emkenlyn Computers, Nneameka Secondary School Anambra.
    Others are: New Kings and Queens Bayelsa, for selling at N5,500; Brightfield Secondary School Delta, for selling between N6,000 and N8,000; A-Pagen Consolidated Port Harcourt, for selling at N5,000 and Influencial School Port Harcourt, for selling at N6,000.
    NAN also reports that the cost of the registration is N3,500, cost of materials is N500 and N700 for the CBT centres; totalling N4,700.
    Meanwhile, the Commandant General, NSCDC, Mr Abdullahi Muhammadu, urged the board to limit the tutorial centres in the country, while making sure that lists of certified tutorial centres were revealed to reduce infractions, as it relate to examinations.
    Muhammadu also called on commandants in the various states, to make integrity their watchword, in order not to betray the confidence the board have in them as well as Nigerians.

  • JUST IN: JAMB makes U-turn on compulsory use of NIN for 2020 exams

    The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the suspension of the use of National Identification Number for registration for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME.

    This was revealed by JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, while briefing journalists in Abuja on Saturday.

    The latest announcement came after the board last year said from 2020, candidates will register for its examinations with their national ID numbers to solve the challenges of multiple registrations.

    However, Oloyede said the move was to provide more time for candidates to get their national identification numbers before 2021.

    He said the suspension was also to address the technical challenges experienced at some centres.

    He asked candidates to disregard the use of NIN for the 2020 registration and strictly comply with other procedures for the registration.

    Oloyede, however, noted that JAMB will consider the use of NIMC for the 2021 exams.