JAMB suggests penalties for 11 CBT centres, candidates over fingerprint violations
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has imposed strict sanctions on 11 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres and candidates involved in fingerprint irregularities during registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this announcement after holding a strategy session with key stakeholders, which followed an earlier meeting with the affected CBT centres and candidates in Abuja yesterday.
He explained that the proposed actions, which still await approval from the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, are meant to ensure the exam process remains credible.
“The leadership of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, with some critical stakeholders, hereby recommends that: Any registrant who has registered more than 50 candidates (with infractions) should be dismissed from participating in the activities of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.”
“And what that means is that such a person will not participate in any UTME exercise, will not be registered for the UTME even as a student, and will not be allowed to participate in any of the sister examinations, be it WAEC, NECO, or NABTEB, and this is to be for three years.”
“The suspension is to stay for three years. After three years, the board will revisit it and look at the issue. If the registrant has shown any remorse, such a suspension could be lifted.”
“And others who have registered less than 50 will be warned and they will be required to write a letter of apology to the board after issuing a bond, indicating that they will not be involved in such a thing again.”
“Then for CBT centres, those involved are to be warned and then they will be asked to sign a bond. Beside the bond, they will also be required to give evidence of training of their registrants.”
“And that training should be anchored by any of the federal universities within their vicinity. That training should be anchored by the appropriate department of the university within their vicinity,” Oloyede stated through JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Dr Fabian Benjamin, who relayed the recommendations.
Oloyede further emphasized that the Board would not accept any future misconduct from the affected centres, regardless of any claims of ignorance, and that they must undergo proper training at nearby federal universities before they can resume activities with JAMB.
