The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that over 1.1million applicants registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede made this disclosure on Saturday while examining the ongoing registration exercise in some computer based test centres (CBT) in Abuja, the country’s capital.
He also revealed that the examination board would not extend the deadline for students to register for the examination.
He warned CBT centres against extortion of students applying for the examination.
The Informant247 recalls that the sale of the 2023 UTME began on Saturday January 14, 2023 and is to close Tuesday February 14, 2023.
Oloyede said: “Registration is going on well except some of these schools.
“UTME is not a school based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what that school, Stella Maris is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up mixing up the telephone number of the candidates.
“So once they keep the telephone number of candidates it is unlikely that the candidates, when we are contacting them if we want to make a change in their timetable, you send a text to them and it will not get to them. After they have graduated from the school and want to do change of course, they don’t have access to it.
“And that is a way of extorting the parents. We will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that. One of the reasons is that we will tell evey CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchase of pin and bulk registration. So, if s centre sells more than one pin to a source or collects money for more than one pin from a source then we will sanction such centre.”