Head of Media and Information at the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, has suggested what candidates
in the ongoing UTME should do if they discover on examination day that
the exam is not holding at their centres, NAN reports.
He said the Board had discovered that some examination centres had
fallen short of the standards in terms of facilities and other
logistics; and that JAMB was doing everything possible to ensure that
candidates in such centres are not short-changed by any means.
Fabian spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
Fabian said, “I will like to mention that some centres have
fallen short of the standards of the Board in terms of facilities and
other logistics.
“The Board is doing everything possible to ensure that candidates in such centres are not short-changed by any means.
“They should not panic, as they will be relocated to new centres by the Board in due course.
“The Board will relocate them to new centres for the examination, with new dates.”
He advised the affected candidates to check their profiles from
time to time for the new centres and dates for their examination.
“The Board is not happy with this development, as it has been
discovered that most of such centres are mainly those situated in
secondary schools, with their owners claiming to have perfect facilities
on ground before the commencement of the examination.
“Others involved themselves in one infraction or the other.
“We are not going to take these issues lightly with defaulting
centres and their owners. At the appropriate time, they will be
sanctioned,” Benjamin said.
He said that candidates who thought their centres were shut out
from the examination should not panic, as it meant they had been
relocated.
“With the complaints we got from such centres without capacity
to meet the Board’s examination standards, we quickly swung into action
to relocate the candidates, as we do not want them to feel cheated or
get confused.
“So, these candidates might arrive at such centres to discover that nothing is happening there.
“They should not panic, they should just know that they have been relocated from such centres to a new one.
“All they have to do is to continue to check their profiles for information on their new centres and dates for the examination,” he said.
He said that JAMB would continue to deploy resources within its powers to ensure that no candidate is left behind.
