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JAMB Warns 2022 UTME Candidates Against Revealing Profile Codes

JAMB has warned 2022 UTME Candidates against revealing their profile codes.

Glamtush reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) not to divulge their codes to third parties as fraudsters could use them to manipulate their profiles to their own detriment.

The Board also appealed to non-candidates to stay off registration centres during the exercise.

It urged parents to allow their children to read the registration instructions and follow them appropriately.

The Board said the registration exercise has been mostly successful, adding that 99 per cent of problems encountered by candidates were self-inflicted because they played into the hands of fraudsters.

JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede said this during the monitoring of the registration exercise in JAMB’s Computer Based test Centre in Kogo, Bwari Area Council on Thursday in Abuja.

The Registrar also visited Blue Ocean Technologies at Dutse Alhaji, Kubwa, Abuja.

Oloyede said the Board has registered over 500,000 candidates for the examination slated for 6th to 16th of May this year.

He said JAMB’s target is to register 1.5 million candidates before the March 26, 2022 deadline.

To achieve this, Oloyede said the board plans to register at least 50,000 candidates per day, saying JAMB has succeeded in registering over 70,000 per day two days ago.

The Registrar said: “So far so good, we have registered over five hundred candidates. We are expecting about 1.5 million or thereabout. We still have more than twelve days to go. And if things continue to move smoothly, we plan to register 50 thousand per day.

“Two days ago, it was over seventy thousand per day. We believe today we should be able to register seventy thousand. Yesterday there was a little glitch on the system.

“I am happy you were able to talk to candidates who had problems. You saw that 99 per cent of the problems are self-inflicted and it is because they play into the hands of fraudsters.

“You can see the gentleman who said he was just a do-gooder and was doing the wrong thing on their profile. He will cease the profile and they will go back to check, blackmailing them.”

Speaking on the quality of CBT test administered by JAMB, he said, “Which of the biometric centres are they using that is as good as this one you have seen here? And yet we do it at N3, 500 yet people are still not complying with simple instruction. You can see that everything is going on well.

“Even outside Nigeria, West African College of Physicians and West African College of Surgeons, people from outside the country are coming here to patronise us because we are doing the right thing for them. So, if the quality of work is not good, they wouldn’t be coming from all over.”

Angela Davies