Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has removed over 22 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres from the list of those accredited for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for allegedly defrauding 11,823 candidates to the tune of N59 million.
Professor Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB Registrar disclosed this recently during a virtual meeting with representatives of the affected centres.
He explained that the CBT centres carried out the fraudulent acts by charging candidates more than stipulated amount for effecting correction on profile as well as bypassing One-Time Password (OTP) required of candidates to initiate such changes.
Oloyede further stated that the affected centres were from nine states, adding that any centre that shared the same ownership with them also stood suspended from all JAMB activities.
The JAMB registerer revealed that the affected CBT centres owners would be prosecuted, said the Board has reversed the changes done illegally by affected candidates while the monies paid to JAMB to effect these changes remains intact on their profiles.
He advised such candidates to change their passwords to avoid further damage following exposure of their secret code to operators of the now blacklisted CBT centres.
The JAMB Registerer insisted that such behaviour of fleecing innocent candidates of several amounts of money under the guise of effecting changes in registration details portends danger for the country. He hinted that some of the CBT operators were collecting N3,000, N5,000 from candidates for an amount that was supposed to be N200 as service charge, adding that JAMB has concrete proof of the infractions as the Board made undercover payments to the centres in order to actually detect the fraud that was being perpetrated
The affected CBT centres are Bright Stars, Aba, Abia State, 68 candidates; Flourish Computer Centre, Akwa Ibom State-105; Ibom-E-Library, Akwa Ibom-12; Chukwuemeka Odumegwu University, Igbariam-661. Anambra State; Deacons Digital Solutions Ltd-96; Federal Poly, Oko 314, Mega Dataview, Onitsha-733.
In Bayelsa State; Linnet Paul Innovative Institute, Yenagoa- 3435; Niger Delta University-1200; Edo State: Diict, Benin-81;Gateway Edutech,Benin-10; Gifted Hands science and Technology, Benin-223; NABTEB ICT Training Centre, Benin-291; Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa-670 and Supreme ICT Foundation, Benin-22.
The list also includes Enugu State: Elco ICT, Nsukka-538; Peaceland And Stalwart Solutions, Enugu-554; Union ICT-773; Kaduna State: Time online ICT, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna-67: Lagos State: Duntro High School, Surulere-21; Elite BusinessConsult, Ikorodu 218 and Rivers State: Ave Maria international academy, Rumuodara, Port Harcourt-1731.
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