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• 577 visually-impaired candidates to write UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners to arrest any parent found near any of their facilities while candidates are writing this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The directive was issued at the final briefing of the CBT centre owners held virtually on Wednesday, April 17.

JAMB said the directive became necessary following the intrusion of some parents during previous examinations.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stressed that any parent who disobeys the order would not only be arrested but his ward would also be disqualified from writing the examination.

The registrar said the board had discovered that many intruding parents were facilitators of examination infractions while others had, by their actions, disrupted the board’s examinations in the past.

He added that some miscreants also disguised as parents to infiltrate the centres and perpetrate all forms of infractions.

Oloyede said JAMB had directed security operatives to work with the CBTs to apprehend any meddlesome parent found near any examination centre.

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The JAMB boss noted that going by the extant national policy on education, a candidate for the examination must have attained the age of 17 years.

According to him, it is evident that some parents had not allowed their wards to pass through the classes, as defined in the document, hence, the need to follow their wards to the examination venues with the aim of compromising officials.

Oloyede said some parents deserved to be sanctioned for “smuggling” underage candidates among those who qualify to write the examination.

The JAMB boss advised candidates to guard their personal details, such as e-mail address, as well as their registration and phone numbers.

The advice, he said, was issued because some candidates might be enticed into patronising fraudulent websites.

Oloyede told the UTME candidates that if their personal details were found with any of such sites, they would be treated as accomplices and prosecuted.

The registrar said all arrangements had been concluded for the conduct of the UTME, which would be written in over 700 CBT centres across the country.

Also, 577 blind candidates will write this year’s UTME at 11 centres nationwide.

The UTME is expected to begin today in over 700 CBT centres nationwide and end on April 29.

The 577 candidates would write 20 subjects on April 22 and 23.

The Chairman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, announced this while addressing reporters yesterday in Abuja on the preparation for this year’s UTME for blind candidates and others with special needs.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, set up the JEOG in 2017 for effective handling of the blind candidates and others with special needs.

Okebukola said: “This year, and for the first time, JAMB, through JEOG, will implement the bimodal system of UTME administration.

“This involves Fully-Braille and Fully Read-Aloud. Candidates have a choice of mode. JEOG has been resourced by JAMB to make the experience of the two modes of test administration pleasant for the candidates.

“With a total of 577 blind candidates, the 2024 UTME presents the highest number. We had 348 in 2022, 313 in 2023. The 2024 increase is largely due to increased advocacy by JEOG, a process which will be bolstered in the coming years.”

No fewer than 577 blind candidates will write this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in eleven centres nationwide.

The 2024 UTME examination will commence on Friday 19 in over 700 CBT centres nationwide and end on April 29.

The 577 candidates would take the examination from April 22 and 23 in eleven centres and 20 subjects.

The chairman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG), Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola made this known on Thursday, April 18, while addressing newsmen in preparation for the 2024 UTME for blind candidates and others with special needs assigned to JEOG.

Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede set up the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group in 2017 for effective handling of blind candidates and others with special needs.

Okebukola said: “This year and for the first time, JAMB, through JEOG, will implement the bimodal system of UTME administration.

“This involves Fully-Braille and Fully Read-Aloud. Candidates have a choice of mode. JEOG has been resourced by JAMB to make the experience of the two modes of test administration pleasant for the candidates.

“With a total of 577 blind candidates, the 2024 UTME presents the highest number. We had 348 in 2022, and 313 in 2023. The 2024 increase is largely due to increased advocacy by JEOG, a process which will be bolstered in the coming years.”

Okebukola, who is also the President of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi-Africa), described Prof. Oloyede as one of the strongest pillars of equal opportunity of access to higher education in Africa.

He said: “In the last four days, I have conferred with members of GUNi-Africa on how blind candidates aspiring for higher education in Africa are treated in their countries and all are in agreement that Nigeria, through Professor Oloyede, stands clearly out as the best.

“This year, all blind candidates who are prima facie qualified for admission to institutions of higher learning in Nigeria (that is with at least five O-level credits) will have the cost of their UTME registration refunded on-site during the examination.”

The former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) said the other five “goodies” that Oloyede has been showering on the candidates since 2017 are- free hotel accommodation for the blind candidates and their guides, free Braille slate and stylus, customised t-shirts; free meals through the examination period and transport supplementation for the blind candidates and their guides.

“No other African country comes near offering such kind gestures,” he said.

Okebukola added: “This is why I have nominated Professor Oloyede for the CNN Heroes Award. We are mobilising the whole of Africa to support the nomination for 2024 and we will not stop nominating him until God makes it possible for him to be conferred with the award which he very much deserves.”

On the distribution of the candidates and the centre coordinators, many of whom are former Vice-Chancellors, Okebukola noted that “Kano has the highest number of 138 with Professor Muhammad Yahuza Bello, former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University as Coordinator.

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“This is followed by Lagos with 88 candidates with Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, former VC of LASU as coordinator. Others are Abuja (60)- Professor Sunday Ododo; Ado-Ekiti (37)- Professor Rasheed Aderinoye, former Executive Secretary, National Commission for Nomadic Education; Bauchi (44)- Professor Salisu Shehu current VC of Al-Istiqama University, Sumaila, Kano; Benin (26)- Professor Samuel G. Odewumi; Enugu (66)- Professor Emeritus Mosto Onuoha (former DVC Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufo-Alike; Kebbi (21)- Professor Asabe Kabir; Oyo (57)- Professor Taoheed Adedoja, former Minister of Sports and Special Duties; Jos (24)- Professor Nasiru Maiturare, former VC of IBB University; and Yola (16)- Professor Muhammad Yakasai, VC, Sule Lamido University, Kafin Hausa.”

He explained that blind candidates take the same test papers as the regular candidates and standards are not lowered in any form.

Okebukola was delighted that Dr. Jake Ekpelle, the Founder/CEO of The Albino Foundation who is in charge of publicity of JEOG alongside special interest groups for the blind and the deaf who are also members of JEOG, was pleased with the arrangements and look forward to a very successful UTME.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed security operatives to work with Computer Based Test Centre owners to apprehend any meddlesome parent, who come near their facilities during the 2024 UTME exercise.

The agency, during a briefing with CBT owners, said the directive became necessary following the intrusive disposition of some parents during its previous exercises.

Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said any parent who disobeys the order would not only be arrested but his ward would also be disqualified from sitting the examination.

Oloyede said: “This measure is necessary as it has been discovered over time that many of these intruding parents are facilitators of examination infractions while others have, by their actions, disrupted the Board’s examinations in the past. Some miscreants also disguise themselves as parents to infiltrate the centres to perpetrate all forms of infractions.”

Oloyede noted that going by the extant national policy on education, a candidate for the examination must have attained the age of 17 years.

He added: “Therefore, it is evident that these parents had not allowed their wards to pass through the classes as defined in the document, hence, the determination to follow their wards to the examination venue with the aim of compromising examination officials. At any rate, it is clear to any discerning observer that these parents deserve to be sanctioned as they had obviously ‘smuggled’ underage children into the ranks of those scheduled to sit the examination.”

He advised candidates to jealously guard their personal details, e-mail address, as well as their registration and phone numbers.

The JAMB registrar noted: “This advice is issued against the backdrop of some candidates, who might be enticed into patronising any of those fraudulent websites out there. Consequently, the Board informed candidates that if their personal details are found with any of such sites, they would be treated as accomplices and prosecuted.”

The registrar said all arrangements have been concluded for the conduct of the 2024 UTME which will hold in over 700 CBT centres nationwide.

He disclosed that the Board expects a seamless exercise but it has nevertheless made adequate provision to tackle any technical glitch that might occur in the course of the examination.

He warned that if a session experienced any technical challenge, candidates in subsequent sessions would be allowed to sit their examination as scheduled while the candidates in the challenged session would be rescheduled for the last session for the day or the following day or even further depending on the centre schedules.

He stated: “Candidates are to take note of this so that they will remain calm in the event of any disruption. In this wise, any candidate or parent, who disrupts any subsequent session on account of the failure of his/her session, would be disqualified outright from taking the examination.”

Oloyede appealed to centre owners to consider the assignment as a national engagement and not as a pure profit venture.

He urged them to expose the bad eggs among them.

The registrar recalled that hitherto, CBT centres were allowed to register Direct Entry candidates, adding that the practice was discontinued owing to the predilection of some of them to engage in fraudulent acts despite the many opportunities that the Board had created for them, especially by ensuring that other agencies patronise them.

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He, therefore, enjoined centre owners to eschew unwholesome acts or risk losing vital opportunities.

He expressed shock over multiple intelligence showing how the CBT centres have been making efforts to compromise the Board’s staff, especially with the offer of accommodation.

He asked why they would want to do that when they constantly complain that what is paid them is not enough.

He said the centres should not hesitate to expose any staff, who ask for such favours as the Board had sufficiently paid its staff for the exercise in line with government regulations adding that any centre which persists in doing so, might have something to hide.

The registrar informed the participants that the Board had deployed state-of-the-art technologies to check all manners of infractions, collaborations and other unsavoury acts that are at variance with its code of operations.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners to arrest any parent found near any of their facilities during the 2024 UTME exercise.

The directive was issued at the final briefing of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre owners on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

This directive became necessary following the intrusive disposition of some parents during the Board’s previous exercises.

According to the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, any parent, who disobeys this order, would not only be arrested but his ward would also be disqualified from sitting for the examination.

The Board’s helmsman noted that going by the extant national policy on education, a candidate for the examination must have attained 17 years. 

Read Also: JAMB urges candidates to print UTME notification slip

“Therefore, it is evident that these parents had not allowed their wards to pass through the classes as defined in the document, hence, the determination to follow their wards to the examination venue with the aim of compromising examination officials. 

“At any rate, it is clear to any discerning observer that these parents deserve to be sanctioned as they had obviously ‘smuggled’ underage children into the ranks of those scheduled to sit the examination,” he said

The Board also advised candidates to jealously guard their personal details, e-mail address as well as their registration and phone numbers.

The advice was against the backdrop of some candidates, who might be enticed into patronising any of those fraudulent websites out there. 

The Board warned candidates that if their personal details are found with any of such sites, they would be treated as accomplices and prosecuted.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all candidates who registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scheduled to start next Friday (April 19) to print out the examination notification slip.

The board said the notification slip is ready for the candidates to print out.

JAMB Public Communication Advisor Fabian Benjamin announced this in a statement yesterday in Abuja.

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The statement reads: “All candidates, who have registered for the 2024 UTME scheduled to commence on Friday, April 19, 2024, are urged to print their notification slips before Friday, April 19, 2024, to know the date, venue and time of their respective examinations as well as some other vital information regarding the examination.

“To print the slip, candidates are to visit the JAMB website: www.jamb.gov.ng; click on ‘2024 UTME Slip Printing’ input their registration number, then click on print.

“The slip can be printed anywhere provided there is an internet-enabled computer.

“To successfully sit the examination, candidates are advised to print on or before Friday, April 19, 2024 to locate the venue of their centres to prevent lateness on their scheduled examination date.”

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has asked all candidates who registered for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scheduled to commence on Friday 19th April 2024 to proceed to print the examination notification slip.

The Board said the 2024 UTME notification slip, which shows candidates the date, venue, and time of their examination, was now ready for printing.

The Public Communication Advisor at JAMB, Fabian Benjamin stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

The statement urged the candidates to print their Notification slips before Friday, 19th April, to know the date, venue, and time of their respective examinations as well as some other vital information regarding the examination.

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The 2024 UTME is scheduled to commence on Friday, 19th and will end on Monday, 29th April, 2024.

The statement reads: “All candidates, who have registered for the 2024 UTME scheduled to commence on Friday, 19th April 2024, are urged to print their Notification Slips before Friday, 19th April 2024, to know the date, venue and time of their respective examinations as well as some other vital information regarding the examination.

“To print the slip, candidates are to visit the JAMB website: www.jamb.gov.ng; click on ‘2024 UTME Slip Printing’ input their registration number, then click on print.

“The slip can be printed anywhere provided there is an internet-enabled computer.

“To successfully sit the examination, candidates are advised to print on or before Friday, 19th April 2024, so as to locate the venue of their centre to prevent lateness on their scheduled examination date.”

• Board shifts DE registration deadline to April 25

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it uncovered 1,665 fake A’Level results during last year’s Direct Entry (DE) registration.

The board said it embarked on the results verification to checkmate the endemic corruption and restore integrity to the admission process.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, stated this when he hosted the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES) at the board’s headquarters at Bwari in Abuja.

Oloyede said out of the figure, 397 results were from colleges of education, 453 from university diplomas, and the rest from other A’Level certificates.

The JAMB registrar noted that everyone should be concerned about holding certificates that no one would respect because of the activities of forgers.

He said this was the reason the board was making efforts to safeguard the integrity of the A’Level certificates for getting admission by putting in place measures that would stand the test of time.

In this week’s bulletin released by the board’s spokesperson Fabian Benjamin yesterday in Abuja, Oloyede recalled that when a candidate applied for DE in the past, the board would simply ask awarding institutions to do the necessary screening and due diligence.

The registrar said JAMB was dumbfounded by the startling revelations from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where out of the 148 Direct Entry applications to the institution, only six had genuine certificates.

He added that it was the discovery of the monumental fraud that prompted the meeting of critical stakeholders to chart ways of combating the menace.

Part of the measures suggested, Oloyede said, was the constitution of an A’Level result verification task force as well as the creation of a common platform for the verification of A’Level results and other certificates.

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The JAMB registrar said the platform was reliable and user-friendly, as it only takes five minutes to verify any certificate.

He explained that to underscore the importance attached to the exercise, the board had put in place a “no verification, no admission” policy.

Listing 15 institutions that have not sufficiently complied with verification requests from the board, Oloyede said the affected institutions, with more than 20 unverified candidates, would have to pre-verify candidates applying with their certificates before they could complete their DE registration process.

According to him, the modification in the ongoing DE registration is that candidates could register while the school verifies them at the backend.

Oloyede said the 15 institutions, which were yet to fully comply, would have to pre-verify holders of their certificates before completing their DE registration.

NANCES President Egunjobi Samuel praised the registrar, particularly for restoring sanity, integrity, and credibility to the nation’s examination and admission processes.

He said the association was at the JAMB headquarters to channel the complaints from its members about the seemingly intractable challenges they were having in the ongoing DE registration as well as ask for more DE registration centres.

Also, JAMB has further extended the registration for this year’s DE examination to April 25.

JAMB had earlier fixed March 28 as the deadline for the DE registration, which started on February 28.

The board subsequently extended the deadline to April 11.

But in an X post yesterday, the board said it had extended the deadline to April 25.

About 1,665 fake A’level results were uncovered during the 2023 Direct Entry registration exercise, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said. 

The agency said the A’level results verification regime was occasioned by the endemic corruption associated with the system and was intended to restore the integrity of this component of the admission process. 

Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said this during a visit by the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES) at JAMB’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja.

Oloyede revealed that of this figure, 397 were from colleges of education, 453 from university diplomas and the rest A’level certificates.

He pointed out that it should be of grave concern if no one respected the certificate one was holding; hence, there was a need to safeguard the integrity of the A’level certificates that are used to secure admission through measures that would stand the test of time. 

In its weekly bulletin released by the spokesperson of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin in Abuja on Tuesday, the Registrar recalled that in the past, when a candidate applied for DE, the Board would simply ask awarding institutions to do the necessary screening and due diligence. 

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Oloyede stated that JAMB was dumbfounded by the startling revelations from Bayero University, Kano (BUK), where of the 148 Direct Entry applications to the institution, only six of the certificates forwarded for processing were genuine.

The Registrar added that it was the discovery of this monumental fraud that prompted the meeting of critical stakeholders, who met to chart ways of combating the menace. 

Part of the measures suggested, he said, was the constitution of an A’level result verification task force as well as the creation of a common platform for the verification of A’level results and certificates. 

He said the platform was reliable and user-friendly, as it only took five minutes to verify any given certificate. 

Oloyede also disclosed to underscore the importance attached to the exercise, the Board has put in place a “no verification, no admission” policy. 

While listing fifteen institutions that have not sufficiently complied with verification requests from the Board, he stated that the affected institutions, with more than 20 unverified candidates, would have to pre-verify candidates applying with their certificates before they could complete their DE registration process. 

According to the Registrar, the modification in the ongoing DE registration is that candidates could go ahead and register while the school verifies them at the backend. 

He, however, declared that the fifteen institutions, which were yet to fully comply, would have to pre-verify holders of their certificates before they complete their DE registration.

The Board has further extended the registration exercise for 2024 Direct Entry examination to April 25.

It had fixed March 28 as the deadline for its DE registration which commenced on February 28.

The board subsequently extended the deadline to April 11.

But in an X post on Tuesday, the board said it has extended the deadline to April 25.

JAMB said the latest extension became necessary to accommodate candidates who have expressed interest in registering for the exercise but have been unable to do so “against the backdrop of some compelling realities”.

It also attributed the deadline shift to the implementation of novel measures aimed at curbing “infractions discovered in the DE component of the admission value chain”.

“The general public is invited to note the iron-clad determination of the board to safeguard its systems from threats from whatever quarters, while ensuring that candidates with genuine credentials are given the opportunity to register for the DE exercise.

“Candidates with questionable credentials are urged in their own interest to stay away from the registration venues as the various measures put in place by the Board are guaranteed to fish out holders of forged or fake certificates for apprehension and prosecution,” it said.