The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has sought the assistance of the Nigeria Army to help secure its computer based tests (CBT) centres ahead of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In a statement released by the JAMB’s spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, on Thursday in Abuja after a meeting with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Tukur Buratai, the registrar solicited for the intervention and cooperation of the Nigerian Army in the coming examination.
While commending the Nigerian Army for uniting the country particularly the feat it recorded in the insurgency war and restoring peace in other turbulent areas, Oloyede outlined his mission to Defence Headquarters.
He said there was need to secure the venues of the UTME in order for JAMB to conduct a hitch free exams for candidates desirous of qualitative education to all tertiary institutions in the country.
“This need became imperative to seek for security intervention from the Army, particularly in turbulent areas”, he said.
The Registrar said over 678 centres across the country as against the 650 CBT centres recorded last year would be put to use with an estimated 1.5million candidates for the examination, adding that 1.237million candidates had already submitted their application already.
Oloyede also told the Buratai that the agency was collaboration with Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) to airlift candidates in riverine areas to their CBT centres.
