JAMB to close registration Match 26
By, Lilian ONUMAH
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the closure of the 2022 JAMB registration exercise on Saturday, March 26, as earlier scheduled.
This was contained in a press statement signed by the executive Registrar of the board Prof Ishika Adewale made available to Newsmen on Monday in Abuja.
The Statement said that the sale of e-PINs for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) which commenced on Feb. 19, to end on Saturday, March 26, would not attract any extension.
“This emphasis is essential because of the persistent drop in the number of e-PINs being vended, as well as the low turnout of candidates at the various centres across the nation.
“It would be recalled that the board had stated that it would not extend the registration beyond the window allotted to it by relevant authorities to conduct the exercise.
“As discussed earlier, registration dates are not fixed arbitrarily but through a consensus of the Federal Ministry of Education and examination agencies, before the commencement of the exercise.
“Therefore, all candidates who desired to register for this year’s examination are to do so immediately, as they only have this week and no extension would be granted after the closing of registration,” JAMB stated.
The board, however, said that it had so far registered 1,512,739 candidates as of Saturday, March 19.
He added that the Board also, remitted N261, 992,200 to accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres and the N700 accumulated service charge for the fourth week of the exercise.
The board had earlier introduced a cashless policy and directed all candidates to pay the N700 service charge to the e-PIN vendors, alongside the N3,500 application fees.
JAMB said that the cashless policy was introduced to curb the excess of some fraudulent CBT centres, which would want to take advantage of hapless candidates.
The Statement said that the Board promised, however, to remit to the centres, the accumulated N700 service charge on a weekly basis, proportional to the number of candidates they registered.
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In another development, the board said that it had suspended two financial institutions who were also vendors in its ongoing exercise.
JAMB said that the vendors were also blacklisted for allowing their agents to vend UTME e-PINs to candidates, above the stipulated price of N4,700 cost of registration.
The board said that, besides blacklisting the vendors, it would retrieve the details of the agents for prosecution.
“we will report their illicit act to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, to ensure extorted candidates were fully refunded.
