The Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has revealed that 1.94 million candidates sat for the 2024 examinations in the country.
Oloyede said this on Wednesday in Kaduna, while inspecting Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in the state amidst the ongoing JAMB examinations.
He said at the end of the examination today, there would be less than 100,000 candidates remaining in Lagos, Benue and other states in the country, adding that the pace at which JAMB cleared candidates and captured biometrics made it faster.
The Registrar said this was part of JAMB’s re-engineering process towards ensuring hitch-free examination. “Even today, I have seen something which we need to improve on, but most importantly, we have done so many things in the background to make the exercise faster, more efficient and better. We have increased the level of automation,” he said.
The Registrar frowned at examination cheats, saying “It does not pay,” adding that most of the problems JAMB faced were impersonation.
He specifically said most of the cases were candidates who have double National Identification Number (NIN), adding that JAMB would take up the issue with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
“The important thing is that we are ahead of the impersonators, we have arrested a father writing examinations for his son, the kind of parenting in this generation is uncalled for, I wonder what the father will tell the son if they are locked up in the same cell.
“We now have the facilities to check all sorts of impersonation and other malpractices,” he said.
