The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has called on candidates who registered for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in some recently blacklisted centres that there is nothing to worry about.
The Board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday.
Benjamin said there was no need for the candidates to panic or consider going for another registration as this would automatically disqualify them from participating in the board’s forthcoming examination.
NAN reports that the JAMB announced recently that it had blacklisted 41 centres out of 692 accredited so far for the exercise nationwide over issues bordering on registration cyber fraud, extortion and technical deficiency.
Benjamin said: “We want to call on all candidates who registered in all of these affected centres not to panic or start considering going for another registration elsewhere.
“This will amount to double registration and with this, they stand automatically disqualified for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
“Their biometrics will indicate this on the day of the examination.
“We want to let them know that indeed they have nothing to fear as the security agents are already verifying the culpability of all those involved and at the appropriate time, we will do the needful.”
Giving an update of the total number of candidates that had registered so far, Benjamin said about 1.1 million have so far been captured in the exercise that commenced on January 13.
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