JAMB Begins Investigation of Six CBT Centres Over Alleged Extortion of UTME Candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has kicked off investigation of six accredited Computer-Based Tests (CBT) centres over alleged exploitation of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidates in its ongoing registration.

The board made this known in the Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar yesterday in Abuja.

JAMB said the action followed reports from its monitoring team, which had been going round the country to assess the conduct of the 2022 registration for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE).

The team, the board said, monitored over 800 accredited centres nationwide.

JAMB listed the affected centres to include Covenant Polytechnic, Centre 2, opposite Naval Base, Aba, Abia State and XYZ Technologies, New Secretariat, Umuahia, Abia State.

Others are: Rollings King Info Tech and Management Technology, Ikot Ikpene, Akwa Ibom State; Alsauda Global Investment Limited, Kawaji, Kano, and Success CBT Centre, College Road, Success Bus Stop, Lisaluwa, Ondo State.

JAMB also listed College of Education on Sokoto Road, Maru, Zamfara State, among the centres under watch. The board warned all its e-PIN vendors to monitor the activities of their agents, saying the board would not tolerate any fraudulent act.