CCTV captured CBT centre owners collecting bribes from candidates’
WOJUOLA OLAMIDE
, Abuja
, Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it will release no fewer than 1.3 million results of candidates that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday (today) after they had gone through security checks and found to be without malpractice.
The JAMB Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who stated this on Sunday in an interview with our correspondent, added that the UTME results of Computer-Based Test centres where the CCTV showed malpractices had been cancelled.
The board said the CCTV showed “strange things” such as CBT centre owners collecting money from candidates to engage in malpractices and also threatening JAMB officials at the centres.
The JAMB spokesman said, “We are presently viewing the CCTV to ensure that results are not released in several batches. On Monday, we will release over 1.3 million results. These are the results of the CBT centres that have been screened. We cannot say how many cases of malpractice we have yet, because we are still viewing the CCTV to discover more cases.
“Some strange findings that the CCTV has showed us include a situation where the CBT owners were collecting money from UTME candidates and seeing to how they could assist them. Our officials at the centres raised the alarm but they were also afraid so that their lives would not be endangered.
“What the JAMB officials did was to silently play along with them, but we were watching everything on the CCTV. We later sent operatives to the centres and caught them. Such UTME results were completely cancelled. We knew that there were some innocent candidates in such centres and we have asked them to go to other CBT centres and rewrite immediately.”
Benjamin said candidates whose fingers could not be captured during the biometric verification before the examination, would not be allowed to retake the examination, as the biometric verification had already disqualified them.
“We have also concluded all arrangements to do the UTME for blind candidates. The examination is taking place in five centres. These are Abuja, Lagos, Kano, Benin and Enugu. The candidates are writing on Monday (today),” he added...
Dr. Fabian Benjamin
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Mar 19, 2018
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The JAMB Head of Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, stated this on Sunday in an interview with The Punch
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Mar 13, 2018
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The Head of Media of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, gave the directive at a news conference on Tuesday in Bwari, Abuja.
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Mar 9, 2018
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The Head, Media and Information of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, expressed the optimism in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
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Mar 4, 2018
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The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in Lagos on Sunday that arrangements had been concluded for the successful conduct of the exam scheduled to hold from March 9 to March 17.
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Feb 13, 2018
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This is coming on the heels of the claim by a staff, Philomena Chieshe, that a snake swallowed the N36 million she made from the sale of recharge cards
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Jan 19, 2018
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The Board’s Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja
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Dec 6, 2017
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The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
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Nov 22, 2017
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The Board disclosed this in a statement, signed by its Head of Media, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja
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Nov 13, 2017
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JAMB spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos that the meeting, scheduled to hold in Abuja, would brainstorm on the conduct of the examination and identify possible areas for review
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Oct 8, 2017
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JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
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Aug 25, 2017
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The Head of JAMB Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Bwari, Abuja, on Friday.
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Jun 23, 2017
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Benjamin, JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, said some cyber café operators and other unpatriotic Nigerians used the opportunity of the conduct of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to defraud innocent citizens
The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, announced the date in a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja
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Jun 15, 2017
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The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos
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Jun 1, 2017
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The organisation was reacting to reports reaching its Headquarters in Abuja that a large crowd of candidates who wished to effect such changes had on Wednesday besieged its Lagos office
The Head, Media and Information, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, made the clarification in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday
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May 22, 2017
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The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement on Sunday in Lagos that such would enable it to detect where there actually examination malpractices
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