“We are no longer going to allow the cyber cafes to do the registration exercise for prospective candidates because they are extorting candidates and overcharging them.
“They also do services they do not have the capacity to do, coupled with the fact that there was no way of tracking them because they are not registered.
“Another major reason is the mix-up they create on the data of the candidates. Some will just ask the candidates to write their names and other details down for them.
“On accumulating such data, they now get all of them mixed-up, thereby creating problems for these candidates.
“We know there will be uproar because they make a lot of illegitimate money from these services, but we cannot leave the candidates at their mercy.
“Particularly when people will make noise that it is JAMB that was extorting them,’’ he said.
The professor urged all prospective candidates to do their registration and access the board’s major services in any of its 718 accredited centres in the country.
Oloyede said the board would commence the sale of the registration form on Jan.3, 2019 and would span six weeks.
He gave the assurance that the general elections would not affect the sale of forms, adding that the board had adjusted its examination schedule ahead of the election.
He told news men that as always the case, there were special centres for visually impaired candidates.
Oloyede said that all the CBT centres must ensure that the dual screen registration process was followed strictly and ensure that candidates sign out by doing a thumb print that would ensure that data was uploaded and printed.
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A very good one and a welcome development.
ReplyDeleteWhich welcome development? What and what have dey done to provide more centers and improved the existing ones? Do you know the stress they are about to put candidates through? Or you think it's just to talk without first doing the needful
DeleteThis year a girl i met in the keke was talking to her friend and was saying jamb office told her that that center was full already that she should go to Onitsha,can you now imagine the stress
DeleteI hope the exercise will go smoothly for jamb candidate.
ReplyDeleteRubbish! only 718 centres nationwide? They want to create chaos
ReplyDeleteThe stress on d candidates this time ehn
ReplyDeleteThis will cause massive discomfort to the candidates. Dyu know how many people that register for jamb yearly that u will now provide just 718 centers ?? How far will these centers be from the individuals??? I'm quite sure this won't be beneficial to the people u are claiming to try to protect
ReplyDeleteThere are about 774 local governments in Nigeria. This means some local governments don't even have centres. I am shocked!
DeleteNa today!
ReplyDeleteSince 2015 or 2016, cyber cafes were not allowed 2 register JAMB Again.
And d so called CBT Centres also indulge in d habit of asking candidates 2 drop dia details that they'll register them when the sever is less busy. All this monopoly started since APC Inspection.
The meeting was held in unlag yesterday and each person that attended was given 150k for them to agree to this rubbish
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