On Saturday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said that nearly 1.16 million tertiary institution admission hopefuls had registered to take the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry examinations.
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of JAMB, announced this on Saturday during a monitoring tour of several computer-based test centres in Abuja.
During the tour, Oloyede visited the CBT centres at Total Child International School, Dutse, the JAMB Abuja zonal headquarters, Life Camp, Global Distance Learning Institute, and Sascon International College, all in Abuja.
He also stated that the Board will not extend the registration deadline for the 2023 UTME, while warning centres against candidate extortion.
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The JAMB Registrar said, “Registration is going on well except some of these schools.
“The UTME is not a school-based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what that school is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up mixing up the telephone number of the candidates.
“So, once they keep the telephone number of candidates, it is unlikely that the candidates when we are contacting them, if we want to make a change in their timetable; you send text to them and it will not get to them. After they have graduated from the school and want to do change of course, they don’t have access to it.
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“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 every CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchase of pin and bulk registration so if a center 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.”
Speaking further, Oloyede who is a former vice-chancellor of the University of Ilorin urged candidates to report cases of extortion, saying that there is a code for candidates to reach the board when they come across any case of extortion.
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