The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has advised candidates writing the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, to be vigilant and refrain from giving their details to fraudsters.
The Board helmsman, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, gave the advice when fielding questions from journalists during the monitoring exercise at the JAMB Professional Centre on Friday, in Bwari.
“Today’s examination is very important to us because we have done so much engineering that we have been trying to do in the last seven years and we are only successful today for the first time,” he said.
“Those who are fraudsters, who are doing all sorts of things, they know they are in trouble because for the first time we are able to do certain things that we have been aspiring to do.”
The registrar appealed to the candidates who experienced glitches in the course of their examinations to refrain from panicking as they would be rescheduled to write their examinations.
“We appeal to the public to understand this, some centres will fail. I have heard of only one centre who has failed today.
“By the end of today, I expect about 10 percent of the centres to have one problem or the other because we know the level of development in different parts of the country,” the JAMB Registrar added.
He further hailed the public, especially parents for their smooth conduct.
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