Don’t Patronise Cyber Cafes For Registration, JAMB Coordinator Warns UTME Candidates

Coordinator, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Enugu State, Mr. Kuye Olusola, has warned prospective UTME candidates not to patronise cyber cafés for examination registration.

Olusola, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Enugu, said that the call became necessary because cyber cafes had nothing to do with the registration of prospective candidates.

“Cyber cafés have nothing to do with JAMB registration. So, whoever goes to them to register for his or her UTME will have himself or herself to blame,” he said.

NAN reports that JAMB said in December 2018 that it would no longer use cyber cafes for registration of candidates, beginning from the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said this on the sideline of a meeting with proprietors of Computer Based Test centres at the University of Lagos.

“We are no longer going to allow the cyber cafes to do the registration exercise for prospective candidates because they are extorting candidates and overcharging them.

“They also do services they do not have the capacity to do, coupled with the fact that there was no way of tracking them because they were not registered,” Oloyede said in December.

According to Olusola, JAMB has 26 accredited registration centres in Enugu for prospective candidates.

He said that the total amount needed for the registration was N4,700.

Giving a breakdown, he said candidates would require N3,500 for e-registration pin, N500 for reading test, and N700 for service charge at the centre.

Meanwhile, some cyber café owners have acknowledged that they had not been permitted to participate in the forthcoming registration for JAMB examination.

Mrs. Ebere Okwuchi, the Manager of an Enugu-based cyber cafés, told NAN that JAMB did not give café owners the license to register candidates.

She said that patronage was low when compared to other JAMB examination registration periods.

Mr. Romanus Ude, another café operator in Uwani, Enugu, said that owners of the business were experiencing low patronage as the candidates who always patronised them during JAMB registrations were no longer available.