Adedokun Waliyu 
As part of measures to strengthen its operations and enhance the credibility of its examinations, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has reviewed its guidelines ahead of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In the same vein, JAMB also issued a fresh advisory on the conduct of the 2023 UTME and spelt out sanctions to serve as a deterrent for acts capable of undermining the integrity of its examinations.
It would be recalled that the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, had presided over virtual stakeholders meeting on the 2023 UTME, which was hosted from the Board’s National Headquarters on Thursday, 5th January 2023, to kick-start the sale of application documents.
The meeting had in attendance stakeholders ranging from CBT Centre Proprietors, Telcos, Service Providers, Technical Advisors to Chief External Examiners (CEEs), among other partners.
The Registrar had pointed out that the meeting was to review what the Board had done in the previous year as well as articulate its plans for this year.
He noted that the primary target of the meeting were the CBT centres because of the critical role they play in the registration process.
He stated that it was given their importance that the Board had convened the meeting to commit to the partnership.
He urged them to be above board by shunning acts that could undermine the integrity of the registration exercise and, by extension, the conduct of the examination.
“Prof. Oloyede said, as part of the efforts to expand access and take the services of the board to the doorsteps of the final consumers, the Board visited 830 CBT during the accreditation exercise to solicit renewed establish the readiness of the centres for the registration exercise.
He noted that out of these figures, 627 had passed the integrity test while over 200 were rejected because they failed to meet the Board’s specifications.
The Registrar, while congratulating those that scale through the accreditation process, said JAMB regarded CBT centres as valuable stakeholders and had consequently provided sundry logistics support to them such as the facilitation of increased bandwidth to the various centres coupled with granting them access to some services hitherto reserved for JAMB-owned centres.
