UTME: JAMB Axes 11 Shylock Centres

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the licence of 11 centres involved in the ongoing registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.

JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede announced this as he indicated its preparedness to collaborate with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) to eliminate the inflation of the prices of UTME forms.

Oloyede, spoke at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the stakeholders comprise – the 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.

According to Oloyede, 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.

He said,” 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,.” .

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.

The registrar listed some of the centres whose licences were withdrawn

• Federal Polytechnics, Mubi; Adamawa;
• Adazi-Nnukwu ICT/CBT for selling forms at N5,000
• Emkenlyn Computers
• Nneameka Secondary School Anambra.
• 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
• Influencial School Port Harcourt, for selling at N6,000.

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