JAMB BLACKLISTS SIX CBT CENTRE STAFF FOR LIFE OVER EXAM MALPRACTICE
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that six staff of CBT centres caught in blank registration action, preparatory to examination malpractice have been blacklisted for life from participating in JAMB activities.
Registrar of JAMB, Emeritus Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede said this on Monday in an interview with journalists after an inspection of some CBT centres in Ilorin.
According to him,’Six staff of CBT centres have been blacklisted. They admitted to the offence and apologised. But instead of punishing the CBT centres like we initially did, we realised that we would be punishing the students, so we decided to identify the staff that were directly involved and blacklisted them.
“We have put them on our blacklist in JAMB, they will never at any time be involved in JAMB activities again even if they become a lecturer or Vice Chancellor in future.”
The JAMB registrar also said that any candidate that committed an examination infraction against any of the examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO NABTEB has committed it against all of them JAMB inclusive.
“Like our unionists used to say an injury to one is an injury to all, once you commit any examination infraction against any of the examination bodies, know very well that you’re no longer in good standing with JAMB don’t bother to run to us.
“We want clean people and if you’re not clean as a CBT centre, we won’t consider you,” he stressed.
Oloyede also said that JAMB had so far registered a total number of 420,674 candidates for the 2025/2026 JAMB examination as of Monday afternoon, adding that so far no fewer than 32,435 candidates have registered for the exams as of Monday afternoon.
He also said that 124,632 candidates have entered the mock JAMB exams, putting the number of Trial-testing candidates at 331 so far.
Emeritus Professor Oloyede said that the exam body has a target of two million candidates for the exams by the time the exercise closes on May 5, 2025.
The JAMB registrar, who put the number of underaged registrants (candidates who would be less than 16 years by October) at 4,997 as of Monday afternoon, berated those he described as selfish parents that crave to make their children’s educational pursuits their victory medals.
“You can see how we’re deceiving ourselves in this country. Before the maximum figure would be about 300. In a situation when we’ve just started in five days and we have a total number of 4996 underaged registrants. By the end of today, there will be more than 5000.
Oloyede narratedthe story of a student at University of Ilorin years back whose parents mandated them to study Medicine and three months to the end of his final examinations decided not to complete the program against all pleas.
He said the student later sat for JAMB and went to the University of Ibadan to pursue Mass Communications, a course of his interest and came out with First Class, stressing jocularly that he wished Unilorin would grant him three months to complete the Medicine program and dash his parents the certificate.
“Many of these parents have misdirected their children. They want to use their children’s early education to decorate their CVs. Parents are supposed to be selfless but unfortunately what we are having these days that is common these days are selfish parents.”
Answering questions on reasons for allowing underaged candidates in the exams, the jamb registrar said that all underaged candidates are made to sign an indemnity form or undertaking to meet up with academic ability or be sanctioned if such fails to meet up with claimed exceptional intelligence.
The JAMB registrar also said that, earlier in the registration exercise, 10 institutions were caught registering candidates in the night.
After he visits CBT centres to monitor the registration for the 2025/2026 JAMB registration, the JAMB registrar said that the exercise was going excellently well in all centres.
“Going around, I’m very proud of those on the fields, CBT centres, my staff and everyone involved. I think it’s better by far. People know we’ll not take anything less than standard and they’ve done very well. We also thank security agencies. They’ve assisted us so well”.
At the University of Ilorin ,the host Vice Chancellor, Professor Wahab Olasupo Egbewole SAN, in his remarks affirmed Emeritus Professor Oloyede’s excellent assessment of the exercise in the university, stressing that it couldn’t be anything less.
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