Post-UTME not necessary -JAMB

THE Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has said that the conduct of post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) by universities and polytechnics in the country after the JAMB examinations by candidates is not necessary.

Professor Dibu Ojerinde

Speaking at the second combined technical committee meeting on admissions to degree-awarding institutions, National Diploma (ND), Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) and National Innovation Diploma (NIDA) at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, on Monday, Professor Ojerinde said the post-UTME was being conducted as a result  of the nefarious activities prevalent in the present society.
He said parents, guardians and even supervisors of examinations in tertiary institutions, in most cases, connived with students to perpetrate examination malpractices.
“As far as I am concerned, post-UTME is not necessary. But it is the society that will determine whether it is necessary or not.”
The JAMB registrar also said that the board was planning to license cyber café operators in Nigeria to prevent its candidates from being exploited during UTME registration exercise.
Professor Ojerinde, who said the board was already holding meeting with legitimate cyber café operators on the development, added that, “some cyber cafes take as much as N7,500 to register candidates. They even give them fake registration details. In Abuja, last year, about eight candidates came to the examination hall with fake registration materials, which unfortunately, disqualified them from taking the examination. Thank God we had the biometric exercise where they thumbprinted and the rightful people came out.

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