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Ahead of 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME
and Direct Entry, DE Registration
exercise nationwide, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede FNAL has charged proprietors of Computer-Based Test, CBT centres to consider their engagement with the Board as a national assignment.
According to the JAMBulletin, a weekly publication of the Board made available to Maxilens crew, the Prof Oloyede gave the charge at a virtual meeting with the proprietors of accredited CBT centres in preparatory to the 2022 UTME/DE Registration exercise.
The Registrar urged the centre owners to be mindful of their sensitive responsibilities given the strategic importance of the registration exercise to the nation.
He said JAMB would continue to partner with reliable CBT centres, noting that some centres were sanctioned on account of the various infractions committed during the 2021 exercise.
The JAMB Boss added that the Board would not hesitate to do the same should any of them be found wanting.
He said, “I urged you to play your roles responsibly. We would continue to identify bad eggs among you and apply necessary sanctions as the exercise is too important to the nation to be jeopardised by the interests of a few fraudulent individuals.”
Prof. Oloyede also warned against
unwholesome behaviours like extortion, overnight registration, movement of routers to other locations other than the approved centre, attending to candidates by proxy, among others, adding that the Board has put mechanisms in place to detect all forms of infractions.
Also at the meeting, the Registrar extolled the virtues of the cashless regime in this year’s UTME registration exercise, stating that the idea was conceived to prevent
warehousing of candidates, extortion and other exploitative tendencies of some fraudulent operators of CBT centres.
To test the readiness of the centres for the upcoming UTME, the Registrar disclosed that there would be an “A u t o b o t t e s t” before the commencement of registration in the over 600 CBT centres, adding that all centres must be on approved IP addresses in addition to complying with all other regulations as laid down by the
Board.
In addition, the Registrar also disclosed that the Board has approved the recommendations of the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group, JEOG for the smooth conduct of the UTME for Blind Candidates. In the same vein, special arrangements are also being put in place to ease the taking of the examination for the Deaf Candidates in line with the recommendations of the Nigerian National Association for the Deaf, NNAD.
He said the use of National Identification Number(NIN) as a precondition for registration was mandatory for all candidates, staff and ad-hoc staff and advised the centres to guard their sensitive equipment jealously as the Board would not take kindly to any reported loss of any sensitive equipment.
Some of the centre owners, in their
interactions with JAMBulletin at the end of the virtual meeting, expressed appreciation to the Board for being a worthy partner. They said it had been worthwhile partnering with the Board in its bid to enrich the conduct of public examinations in the country. They urged the Board not to hesitate in withdrawing accreditation from centres that flout its guidelines but implored its Management to consider an upward review of their fees in view of the rising operational costs of running their centres.
In another development…
JAMB INTRODUCE NEW TO EASE REGISTRATION FOR CANDIDATES.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Matriculation Board, JAMB has adopted 66019 as an additional and optional USSD code besides the 55019 code that had been in operation since 2018 for UTME/DE registration and other essential services offered by the Board.
This is to facilitate a hitch-free 2022 UTME/DE registration exercise by ensuring that there is no difficulty whatsoever in the creation of profiles by candidates, especially in a situation whereby many of them would be sending their requests via just one USSD code as hitherto the case.
In essence, the 55019 and 66019 are to be used to create their profiles for registration by candidates sitting the
2022/23 UTME/DE.
As usual, candidates are required to send their National Identification Number(NIN) via either of these USSD codes for their details to be pulled from the NIMC database before they proceed to any accredited centre for biometric capturing.
It would be recalled that the Board had earlier given indications that, in its efforts to eliminating all bottlenecks associated with the creation of profiles, it was perfecting arrangements aimed at adopting an additional USSD code (66019) besides the 55019, which the Board had used exclusively since 2018 for its UTME/DE registration and examination exercise.
