As the January 14th deadline for the commencement of sale of registration forms for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, nears, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says it is vigorously pursuing and reinforcing its cashless policy.
Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said henceforth the board would collect all fees pertaining to the 2023 registration and remit what is due to the CBT centre.
Oloyede who spoke while interacting with the board’s weekly bulletin staff in Abuja, said JAMB would collect fees for reading text-book, CBT centre service charge with or without mock, registration centre service charge and CBT, examination, service charge along with the UTME application fee of N3,500 and remit what is due to the CBT centres as candidates would not be paying anything at the registration point.
According to him, this is to dispel the rumours making the rounds that the board may abandon its cashless registration policy introduced in the 2022 UTME.
Oloyede however described the rumours as figments of the imagination of fraudulent operators, who were hell-bent on defrauding prospective candidates to register at only these partnering CBT centres or JAMB State Offices across the country adding that any candidate, who ignored this directive, would not be able to complete
h/her registration.
“No CBT centre is empowered to register candidates with biometric abnormalities or challenges as such candidates with such would only be registered and sit their examination at the JAMB National Headquarters, Abuja, on the last day of the national examination calendar.
“Furthermore, no candidate would be allowed to enter the examination hall or sit the examination if his or her biometrics cannot be verified as the system would not permit or process any examination without biometric verification,” he said.
