….As JAMB officials arrest man for defrauding over 100 students
No fewer than 367 prison inmates in the Ikoyi and Kaduna prisons will
join over 1.7 million candidates to write the Computer Based Test, CBT, in the
Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination, in 624 centres nationwide, which
starts today.
This is as the authorities of the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, JAMB, have arrested a man for allegedly defrauding about
100 candidates by registering them with fake email address and phone numbers
which he claimed to be JAMB address.
The culprit whose identity was not made known because of the ongoing
investigation so as not to jeopardise the investigation was collecting N10,000
from each candidate and had given them wrong information regarding the
examination contrary to the official information from JAMB.
Vanguard reported that the Registrar of
JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede who disclosed this while addressing newsmen yesterday
in Abuja, debunked news making the rounds that the board has postponed the
examination attributing the rumours to the work of mischief makers who he said
were bent on tarnishing the image of JAMB.
According to him, “JAMB did not
postpone the examination, it will take place as earlier announced. All
candidates that were invited for the exams would lose the chance for this year
if they fail to show up at the sheduled time and date.
“Candidates should
ignore the mischief makers sending messages of a postponement, it is not true.”
He said that all candidates that have
been invited for the exams this year must comply with the exam schedule sent to
them, of which failure would result in automatic disqualification.
On the
candidates that were victims of of the alleged fraudster, Prof. Oloyede said
that the implications of the action was that the candidates won’t be able to
get information regarding their exam venue and time.
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