Report reaching us at Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper has shown that no fewer than 1,121, 123 candidates have registered seeking for admission into Nigerian universities through the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME).
According to the Head of Media and Protocol of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Dr. Fabian Benjamin in the JAMB’s Weekly Bulletin today, March 14, the registration exercise for the UTME and Direct Entry (DE), which commenced on February19, would close on March 26, with no extension.
JAMB said that it has paid N600 million cumulative amount derived from the regulated N700 service charges of the registration exercise to accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres.
“JAMB had so far remitted over N600 million service charges to respective centres, in line with the cashless policy of the board, which represents the total number of candidates, multiplied by N700.
“This payment, however, excludes JAMB-owned CBT centres.
“N104,899,300 was paid in the first week of registration; N251,730,500 in the second week of registration and N332,150,700 was paid for last week’s registration.
“Cumulatively, more than N600 million had been paid to the CBT centres as centre charges.”
According to JAMB, the new policy of paying directly to CBT owners have reduced the sharp practices associated with warehousing candidates by tying them to non – performing centres.
The board said that it has also helped the proprietors of CBT centres to have a global picture of the total amount being generated by their respective centres.
It said that the cashless policy was introduced to curb the excesses of some fraudulent CBT centres that would want to take advantage of hapless candidates.
