“DON’T GIVE IN TO EXTORTION” - JAMB WARNS PARENTS

It has come to the knowledge of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB) that some elite schools are using the name of the Board to extort huge sums of money from parents under the guise of registering for the Board’s processes or that the Board has ordered such payments. The Board wishes to state clearly that, unlike the West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO), etc., the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) Registration and Examination exercises are not school based.


As such, schools have no role whatsoever in these operational processes of the Board. This is because these exercises require only the participation and engagement of individual candidates. Consequently, schools that are using the name of the Board to swindle parents of humongous sums of money for registration or other services are hereby warned to desist forthwith. They may wish to employ other means to extort gullible parents but certainly, it should not be at the expense of the Board or its processes.


This information became necessary following the discovery of series of data mutilation occasioned by the unwholesome practice of group processing of registration, among others. Parents are to note that the cost of the UTME forms (ePINs) remains N3500 and N500 for the reading text and nothing more. Parents are to ensure that their children register for the UTME individually and not as a group. In addition, the CBT centres where the candidate's register have been directed not to charge above N700 as their service charge.