JAMB threatens sanction against errant CBT centre owners

Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, has warned operators of the designated Computer Based Test (CBT) centres for the forthcoming Unified Tertiary Examination Examination, against any act of sabotage.

About 1.7 million candidates are expected to sit for the examination which would commence on Saturday 13 May, nationwide, and last till 20 May, 2017.

Oloyede said the Board  would not hesitate to sanction any operator of CBT centre who tries to sabotage the efforts being put in place to ensure a hitch-free examination.

He spoke during the final briefing on the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for computer based test centres proprietors in Abuja on Friday, stressing that any CBT operator caught sabotaging the examination would be severely dealt with.

Following the success recorded in the conduct of the last week UTME mock examination, the JAMB Registrar expressed optimism that with necessary corporation by relevant stakeholders, the next Saturday main examination would be substantially hitch-free.

JAMB had announced the changes in examination dates from the initial May 6 to May 20, 2017, with the new dates now Saturday, May 13 for commencement and to end on 20 May, 2017.

He said: “The truth is that we are going to sanction some of them who misbehave and we mean it. We need to at least caution them. I will not go into some of those things I mentioned to them. You need to send some correct signal to some people.