JAMB urges the general public to disregard speculation that it has started the sales of its application forms for 2017 UTME
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed plans to install Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras in all computer-based centers to be accredited for the registration of 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, revealed this during an interactive meeting with operators of CBT centers from across the country, at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Daily Independent reports.
Oloyede said the introduction of the CCTV’s will help to monitor whatever is going on at the centers.
He also stated that the new process will exclude many cybercafe operators as the computer-based centers to be accredited must have 250 desktop or laptop systems in a single room, with provision for additional 25 systems as back-ups.
Oloyede said:“What we have said is that we are in a period of change, and what that means is that everything we have been doing must be reviewed. Whatever we have been doing rights will have to be reinforced while what were doing wrongly will be changed.
“For the purpose of the CBT centers, we have to introduce the CCTV so that whatever that is going on at our centers can be monitored anywhere in the world.
“We are also standardizing the CBT centers so that all CBT centers will have 250 computers with 10 per cent of the figure as backups.”
In a related development, JAMB has urged the general public to disregard the speculations that it had started the sales of its application forms for 2017 UTME.
Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the board’s Head, Media and Information, debunked the speculations in a statement on Sunday, December 4, in Lagos.
According to the statement, the Registrar of the examination body, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, expressed disappointment with the development and calls on Nigerians to ignore the claims.
JAMB says CCTV cameras will help to monitor the exams worldwide.
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