The Joint Admission
and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Thursday, warned prospective candidates in
the forthcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Nasarawa
State, to stop registering at cyber-cafes, saying majority of the operators are
fraudulent.
It, therefore,
announced Federal University, Lafia; Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa; as well as
Biham University, Karu and Ejade Computer Training Institute, New-Nyanya ,as
four approved computer-based centres in the state for 2014 UTME.
The administrative
officer in charge of the board in the state, Shehu Salihu, who stated this in
Lafia, then warned the operators of the cyber-cafes in the state, who had made
fraud their daily routine to, henceforth, desist from such act or face the
music.
According to him,
"any candidate, who defies this warning and registers at cyber-cafés, must
be ready to face the consequence. I, therefore, call on all the prospective
candidates not to register in any cyber cafe in order to ensure the genuineness
of their registration and avoid problems."
Salihu, who
explained that the 2015 UTME examination would purely be computer-based, said
that the board was working in collaboration with security agencies with a view
to curtailing the unapproved activities of cyber- cafes in the state.
He said the board
had introduced new innovation into the system and under the new arrangement,
special candidates such as visually impaired would be given five hours as
against three hours during the their examinations.
The Nigerian
Tribune observed a large crowd of prospective candidates struggling to register
at the JAMB office in Lafia.
One of the
candidates, Abdul Musa, who spoke with our Correspondent lamented that the
action of JAMB to be registering in four designated centers might not work out
because of number of candidates, seeking admission into tertiary institutions
annually.
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