Approved CBT Centre - JAMB Office Advises Candidates To Register With Them

Paul Darius, the Plateau State Coordinator, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has advised candidates registering for the 2018 UTM examination to do so at approved CBT centres.
Darius told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Jos that the advice was necessitated by the experience of many candidates who had fallen victims of fraudsters.

According to him, many candidates have been exploited financially by some operators of cybercafés not approved by the board.
Darius said: “The cost for registration is N6,200 but a candidate was ignorantly made to pay N8,000 at one of the illegal centres but thank God we caught the boy and handed him over to Civil Defense official.”
Darius said that there were over 21 Computer Base Test centres across the state to make the registration process accessible and easy for candidates.

He said: “We really don’t know why candidates will leave the closest centres to them and come all the way to JAMB office; when they can just walk into the centres and get registered within five to six minutes.”
The coordinator said that the approved list of centres for the registration had been pasted on its notice boards and the official website in order to decongest its offices of the deluge of candidates.

Darius enjoined candidates to use the CBT centres closest to them and desist from patronising illegal business centres for registration.
When NAN interviewed some of the candidates at the JAMB office, they expressed frustration at the hiccups associated with the registration process.
Noro Zang, a candidate, said that she had left home as early as 5.00am, but was delayed at the bank as a result of network problem.
Another candidate, Kuru Dampur, said he was not aware that JAMB had any other CBT centre for jamb registration in Jos.
Dampur said: “I think the problem is that JAMB office in Jos is too small, the crowd is huge and the space is just too small to manage the crowd.’’
He appealed to the state government to make provision for a befitting office space for JAMB.

University Admission - Forty Years and Counting

University Admission - Forty Years and Counting

A  CONTROVERSY raged in 1978 over admission process into the universities. Traditionally, each of the then thirteen universities conducted its entrance examination, but a unified admission process called the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB  was introduced.  I joined some of my classmates in secondary school to take the maiden examination. For us who were  yet to take the School Certificate Examinations, it was a ‘Mock’ examination  to prepare us for the following year when we would be prepared to take it  having had the basic entrance qualifications.


The JAMB examination held during the students’ uprising called “Ali-Mon-Go” when youths protested against attempts by the military junta to turn tertiary education into an elite  commodity.  On examination day, we waded through the streets which were   garrisoned  by armed,  battle-weary policemen who had for days fought demonstrators. Burnt cars at the Ojuelegba Roundabout told the ferocity of the street battles led by the National Union of Nigerian Students.


When the JAMB results were released, I was not successful or so the JAMB officials who went through the result sheets informed me. I was not perturbed, after all, this was to actually prepare me for the next examinations. Some days later, I was at Yaba Bus Stop, Lagos on my way to seek admission into the Higher School and  bought a newspaper. It was serialising the admission list into universities. I read the newspaper but ignored the list. But stuck  in the  infamous Lagos traffic jam, I decided to while away the time by going through the list. There, was my name, in the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU  list!


I was confused; the JAMB officials claimed I failed, but what was my name doing on the advertised list of successful applicants? The only way to confirm if the officials  who checked my result were right or wrong, was to travel to Ife. The Admission Officer checked, confirmed I was one of the successful candidates and asked for my School Certificate results which had just been released. That was how I became one of the pioneer undergraduates admitted through JAMB. The old students mocked us that we were inferior as we were admitted by an untested institution with no pedigree. So they called us JAMBITES


Now forty years later, JAMB is fully matured and not many challenge its authenticity and relevance. It was a simple examination in which what was essential was a pencil and eraser.  That is now gone as it is now a computerised examination. In those days, you were admitted based on the marks scored, but at a point, things degenerated to the point where if you had the required cash, you could be awarded marks and get admitted.  So you could have a person admitted based on very high marks allegedly scored in the JAMB entrance examinations but who was totally unfit and incapable of undergoing an undergraduate course. There were ‘geniuses’  who scored very high marks in JAMB examinations, but failed throughout their university years. With such rot, it was clear that unless something drastic was done, it would be ‘garbage in, garbage out’ of the university system.


In June 2005, Professor  Chinwe Onyema Obaji was appointed Minister of Education. Unknown to many, she is the mother of a youth  who almost missed being admitted into the university because there were many with far higher scores. Yet in the university, he  dazzled like a star while those with very high admission scores, could not cope. She arrived the Ministry with a determination to stop the admission charade. One of her first acts was to introduce a post- JAMB (Post-UME) admission examination by individual universities. She was to argue: “the screening exercise will take care of all kinds of ills in the universities as it will make sure that it is only those students who are ready to learn that are given admission.”  She might have overestimated the effect of her decision on the university system, but its implementation caused an uproar as many who scored high marks in JAMB crumbled at the internal examinations organised by the universities themselves. Those opposed, argued that it amounted to  double jeopardy, as applicants are forced to pay and sit for two examinations for the same purpose. Others said the new policy  questioned the very existence of JAMB and might be a way of abolishing it. The forces were so strong that the directive was later reversed but it brought some sanity into the admission system before JAMB self-corrected. Perhaps in this  era of complete computerisation of the examinations, the body  might have eliminated criminals awarding marks to applicants as the marks are computer-based. Also,  technology has made it easy for JAMB to use multiple or different questions at various stages of the examination.


At the January 9, 2017 JAMB Stakeholders’ Meeting in Abuja, the Registrar, Professor Is-Haq Olarenwaju Oloyede who is credited with the complete computerisation of the examination, singled out Obaji for her courage. She in turn acknowledged the advancement JAMB has made from the period it took months to release the examination results, to this day when it takes just a day.


Oloyede who is credited with saving and remitting about N8 billion  to  government coffers out of  JAMB’s  N12 billion revenue, is leading the organisation in a serious fight against examination malpractice in a digital age. This includes how to eliminate the extension of examination to ‘VIP Rooms’ for examination malpractice and  “the deliberate disruption of examination, usually through power outage, to extend examination time till night to pave way for malpractice.”


Although he said JAMB has introduced anti-examination malpractice gadgets such as  “CCTV camera in the Examination Server Room at the CBT Centre” but the cheats continue to fight back. Such was the case of  an official who used a piece of cloth to cover one of such  cameras. In order to curb these and further engage  the public in monitoring the process to further give it credibility, Oloyede established some committees including one for the “High Powered Opinion Leader.’ Into this body, people  like Professor Obaji and I have been  appointed to amongst other duties, “Monitor the Monitors.” JAMB needs our support to build the tertiary education system. Forty years of flowing with university admission

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FEDERATION ACCOUNT - JAMB TO REMIT LESS REVENUE IN 2018

ABUJA—THE Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, yesterday, told the Senate that the body will remit N4.26 billion into the federation account, this year, a far cry from the N7.8 billion it remitted last year.


Speaking in Abuja when he appeared before the Senator Jibrin Barau, APC, Kano North-led Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFUND for the 2018 Budget defence, Oloyede, who noted that though the agency is expected generate N14.691billion  as Internally Generated Revenue, said that N7.744 billion of the money would be used for overhead cost items while N2.683 billion is earmarked for capital projects.

The JAMB Registrar explained that the examination body was given zero allocations for overheads and capital expenditure components of the 2017 budget, adding that with the 2018 budget proposal, the examination body plans funding for the two components from its projected IGR.

Meanwhile, Senators, yesterday, openly disagreed on whether the huge remittance JAMB made into the federation account last year deserved commemdation.

Speaking further, he said: “If we remove N7.744bn estimated for overhead cost and N2.683bn earmarked for capital project from the projected N14.691bn IGR, the balance surplus would be N4.262bn to be remitted into the federation account as against N7.8 billion remitted last year.”


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2017 DIRECT ENTRY AND JAMB ADMISSION TO END BY JANUARY 28. 2018

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday directed all tertiary institutions to end their 2017 admission by January 25.

The Board’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin said the board’s decision came at a meeting where all issues and ones bordering on the admission process were taken into consideration.

He said it was resolved that the academic calendar must be adhered to.

According to him, the directive becomes necessary as the board intends to meet up with the academic calendar as earlier agreed.

“By implication, candidates who have gained admissions into various institutions and are yet to register or do not have admissions by January 25 should begin to make preparations for the 2018 UTME.

“The public must also note that the UTME results are valid for only one year and not three years as widely speculated.

“If changes are made to the validity, I assure you the board would communicate appropriately to the public.”

The board had recently said that the UTME examinations would take place between March 9 and 17, while the mock exams would take place in the first week of February.

Benjamin also noted that the sale of Direct Entry forms is ongoing while urging candidates who intend to apply to do so immediately as the sale of the DE forms ends on the same date with the UTME’s.

“It has come to our knowledge that a lot of candidates are not aware of the sale of the Direct Entry forms, which we have advertised.

“We are calling on desirous candidates to please register their profile and obtain the pins from the vending platforms.

“Candidates who want to apply to institutions through DE must note that the sale of the forms started the same date as the UTME’s and would end on the same date which is on February 6.

“This form can be obtained through the same process as the UTME forms.

“It could be purchased through vending commercial banks, Mobile Money Operators (MMO’s), Interswitch, NIPOST, and Remita,” he said.

Benjamin, however, noted that candidates should ensure that they disclose at the point of obtaining e-pins the exact pins they are paying for, that is, Direct Entry or UTME as some unknowingly purchase Direct Entry instead of UTME and vice-versa.

JAMB To Intending Applicants: Get Acquainted With Brochure Before Applying

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday called on intending applicants to ensure they get acquainted with the 2018 brochure before applying for the examinations.
The Head of Information of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, reiterated the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.

According to Benjamin, the brochure is detailed enough to inform the candidates as it is designed to give the candidates a clearer idea about the entire examination and admissions process.
He explained that this was necessary as it makes it easier for candidates sitting for the exam the first time to get familiar with the entire process.
Benjamin said that the brochure could be easily accessed from the JAMB website, Youtube and other social media sites.

He also said that admissions were ongoing in the respective tertiary institutions, adding that successful candidates would be enlisted soon.
NAN recalls that the board’s Registrar, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, recently on the sideline of a sensitisation workshop in Lagos, confirmed that sale of the registration document for the 2018 UTME would commence before the end of November.
However, Oloyede said applicants are expected to download the JAMB app and syllabus as well brochure from the JAMB website to enable them study the process.
This, he said was to minimise the errors that usually occur during the registration process.

Jamb CAPS - Central Admissions Processing System

Jamb Caps - Central Admission Processing System - How it works and how to apply

The Joint admission and matriculation board is organizing a forum for all 2017 candidates. The purpose is to sensitize the candidates on how the newly introduced Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) works.

The Board in the discharge of its mandate has developed the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) to automate the admission exercise starting with 2017/ 2018 Academic Session.
CAPS will, among other benefits:

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JAMB CAPS - Central Admissions Processing System - Benefit

-Refocus JAMB on its founding ideals as a Clearing House for the Admissions Process
-Ensure operational efficiency
-Promote transparency, accountability, inclusiveness and equity
-Restore the autonomy of the tertiary institutions with respect to admission
-Expand admission opportunities
-Make candidates the Central Focus of the Admission Exercise, and
-Provide credible and easily accessible Data for Research & Planning.

JAMB CAPS introduces some innovations to achieve the above objectives, particularly the active participation of candidates in the Admissions Exercise. It is in the light of this, that the Board provides below the Step-by-Step Process Flow of the Admission Exercise for the education and information of general public and the stakeholders, particularly the Candidates.

Invitation to Participate in Sensitization Forum for Interested Candidates on Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS).

As part of the Board's efforts to familiarize the candidates with the Admissions Process on the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), particularly their rights to fair treatment and active involvement in decisions about choice of institutions and programmes, a Sensitization Forum has been planned with windows of participation: physical attendance at the venue, through online steaming, webinar and the phone-in segment of the Live Broadcast on the NTA Network.

JAMB invites interested candidates to participate in an optional Sensitization Forum on CAPS. Details are also provided below.

JAMB CAPS - Participation Venue Information

The Forum will hold as follows:

Date: Thursday, 21 September, 2017
Location: International Conference Centre (ICC), Garki Area 11,Abuja
Time: 10am -12noon

Prior registration and confirmation are required for;

(i) Physical attendance
(ii) Webinar participation.

The Live Broadcast on the NTA Network is to allow candidates watch the event at home from any location in the country and participate through phone calls to the dedicated lines that will be provided on the TV screen during the live coverage.

All interested candidates are required to visit http://caps.jamb.gov.ng/candidateregistration.aspx to register for participation, which is only open to candidates qualified for Admission consideration in the 2017 / 2018 Admission exercise.

Limited spaces are available for candidates that desire physical attendance at the ICC, so requests will be treated on the basis of first-come-first-served.



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2017 Jamb Change of Course and Institution closing Date/Deadline

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has disclosed that it will not close the change of courses and institution procedures, until 2017/2018 admission is concluded.

This was disclosed by the JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, during an interview with newsmen.

According to him, it was wrong for any student to observe that the board would close the change of course and institutions procedure soon and advised candidates to avoid panic, but take time to make decision that is suitable for them, to secure admission into higher institutions.

He further stated that the process is a continuous exercise and which the board does not intend to close now but only after admission has been concluded.

“This is so because there are moments whereby candidates who chose particular institution will not have opportunity there and other one will want to offer them admission.

“If closed it will be difficult to access such offer, all candidates need to do is go back to the portal and make changes to those institutions and access available opportunities.

“We want to avoid situation whereby candidates will have multiple admission and will take one and be denied that opportunity.

“When we do that statistics will be strengthened; if candidates choose University of Lagos and later consider Yaba-Tech the statistic will reflect the second choice.

“So that when we are giving account of admission of candidate, we will be able to provide accurate statistic and not distorted data we have been dishing out before,” he said.

He said that the change is imperative for candidates who made mistakes while choosing courses they want to study or the institution or university they want to apply to.

Benjamin explained that the process of change of courses and institutions could be done with the payment of N2, 500 in JAMB Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres and at other approved centres.

He, therefore, advised candidates who wished to change their choice of course or institution to think properly, before doing so to avoid irregularities.

Benjamin said that the board would hold the policy committee meeting on Aug. 21 and Aug. 22, to determine cut-off points for admissions this year into various courses and tertiary institutions.

He further said that the decision for the cut-off points for admission would be decided by Vice-Chancellors of universities, Rectors of Polytechnics and Mono-techniques and Provosts of Colleges of Education. (NAN)