As part of efforts towards curbing examination malpractices, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that from 2018 no candidate, invigilators or centre operators will be permitted into its centres during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) with items such as wristwatches, pens, and unscreened eyeglasses, among other items.
Revealing this today during a meeting with the owners and operators of CBT centres across the country at the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos, Oloyede blamed the centre operators for most of the corrupt practices that were noticed during the conduct of the 2017 edition of the examination.
He accused some of the centres of intentionally extorting the candidates, and that rape attempts were even recorded by some operators.
He said; “Some centres even collected N1,000 as gate fee while others passed cables to inner rooms regarded as VIP rooms where impersonators are deployed to work for the candidates.”
Oloyede further disclosed that the examination body generates an average of N100 million every year from correction of errors made by candidates during their registration, and blamed the Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres, candidates and parents for most of the errors.
