JAMB Commences Conduct Of 2024 UTME …..Warns Against Fraudulent activities
Lulu Bangkong
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Friday commenced the conduct of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide with technical glitches in some Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres.
Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyode, while fielding questions from newsmen after monitoring the exercise in one of the Board’s CBT centres in Kogo, Bwari, Abuja, said he envisaged such challenges in the first day of the UTME giving the level of technological development in the country.
The Board, however, appealed to candidates affected in such centres to remain calm as all of them would be rescheduled to sit the examination at appropriate time.
More than 1.9 million candidates who registered for the UTME would participate in the examination from Friday 19th April to April 29th holding in over 750 CBT centres across the nation.
The JAMB Registrar noted the examination went on smoothly across the country except one centre that had been reported to have encountered issues.
“It is important to note that when a session fails because of a problem, you cannot bring those candidates to do session two, they will have to step aside, and the headquarters will have to be contacted.
“The earliest time they can be scheduled will be after 4:30 p.m. so that those slated for sections two and three can write, and these candidates can now write for session four, and in some cases, they can even be scheduled for the following day,” he said.
However, in some centres monitored in Abuja, Kogo CBT centre, Bwari, the examination went on smoothly including the biometric verification of candidates and their orderly conduct.
Parents also heeded the warning from JAMB and stayed meters away from the examination venue as instructed by the Board’s Registrar, Prof. Oloyede.
Some of the candidates slated for the 8 a.m. examination expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination, urging the Board to sustain the tempo.
Speaking further during monitoring of the examination in Abuja, Oloyede warned candidates against involvement in examination malpractice, saying any candidate caught would regret it.
He also revealed that new measures have been put in place to checkmate examination malpractice, a technology, the JAMB Registrar said has been worked upon in the last seven years.
He advised candidates to be upright in their dealings and to stop patronising fraudsters.
