The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has explained why the exam body banned cyber cafes from registering candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
In a statement signed by the JAMB Head of Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the board noted that the activities in the cafes damaged records and statistics of candidates.
According to the statement, most problems associated with candidates’ registration such as wrong spellings of names, wrongful placement of passport photograph and others emanates from the business centres at registration points.
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“Don’t forget, it is virtually impossible to regulate the activities of these business centres as their mode of operations did not provide necessary details about them.
“These problems created by cafes make information gathering, processing and administration of examination cumbersome as records and data of candidates are distorted.
“The list of JAMB accredited registration centres are on the board’s website for easy identification cohesion and smooth operation,” it explained.
The JAMB official added that the board would continue to expand the frontiers and channels of the sales of the pins in virtually all the banks, with a view to bringing the services to the door step of every Nigerian child desirous of qualitative tertiary education.
