Ahead of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and Direct Entry registration billed to commence on February 12, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has hinted on its plan to establish self-service registration platform.
JAMB explained that the new registration platform would only be established in Lagos and Abuja.
The Board added that it was set to incur not less than N50 million as added commission to its financial vendors, following the introduction of the cashless regime in the 2022/23 UTME/DE Registration exercise.
Head of Media and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, in the board’s weekly bulletin, said the new registration measure was aimed at expanding the registration access points in line with health protocols and reduce the crowds at CBT centers in affected cities.
Benjamin, who noted that JAMB would incur over N50m as commission to financial vendors, quoted the registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, as explaining that the additional financial burden was the price the Board was prepared to pay, due to its passionate concern for the plight of UTME/DE candidates by fraudulent centre owners.
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