*The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) warns all operators of Computer Based Test centres, e-PIN vendors, its staff, and others involved in any aspect of the 2022 UTME and Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise against keeping any of candidates鈥� data

Isola Moses | 绿帽献妻

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned all operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres, e-PIN vendors, staff of JAMB, and others involved in any aspect of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise against keeping any of candidates鈥� data.

绿帽献妻 reports the Board, which gave this warning in its weekly bulletin, noted that the measure comes on the heel of the need to ensure that examination candidates are not extorted or subjected to unnecessary pressure by the any officials during the registration exercise.

JAMB UTME candidates at a CBT centre

Consequently, the Board said none of the officials in the registration value chain is authorised to keep candidates鈥� profile codes, UTME registration, or phone numbers, which candidates may make available to them in the course of the registration process in the country.

JAMB also said that candidates are urged to ensure that they guard their personal information (data) jealously by providing their details to 鈥渙nly designated officials鈥� while ensuring that what they provide is not duplicated or kept anywhere.

The Board stated: 鈥淭his information became necessary following the outcome of the monitoring exercise of the commencement of the exercise which began on Saturday, 19th February, 2022.鈥�

To ensure a hitch free exercise, the Board further stated that Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of JAMB, had visited centres in Lagos and Ilorin, in Kwara State, while other members of management had gone to other states across the six geopolitical zones of the country to assess the situation of things.

Prof. Oloyede described the commencement of the registration exercise, which had begun on a low key, as a positive beginning, and assured the that all the little hiccups noted would be addressed, said the Board.

The Registrar disclosed that candidates could also make use of the USSD Code 66019 to generate their profiles.

In another development, the Board has given approval to all accredited Computer Based Test centre owners to handle access to the Board services to perform certain specialised operations and further broaden one of its critical operations that was, hitherto, restricted to ony JAMB offices.

Consequently, with effect from Tuesday, February 22, 2022, JAMB said candidates can visit any CBT centre nearest to them nationwide to access this particular service.

The particular service being liberalised is the registration of candidates who wish to

obtain application forms for Part-Time, Sandwich, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and Distance Learning programmes.

As a proactive agency, the Board decides to decongest the huge crowds being witnessed at its various facilities.

With this, candidates do not have to visit the Board鈥檚 offices for this particular services.