The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is to accredit 1,039 Computer-Based Test centres nationwide for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, announced this on Wednesday in Ilorin during an accreditation tour of CBT centres.
Oloyede said 52 examination teams are currently doing re-accreditation or disqualifying those centres that failed to meet the board’s standards.
He said the annual accreditation was to ensure compliance with laid-down requirements, adding that past approvals did not guarantee continued eligibility.
“The fact that you qualified last year does not mean you qualify this year,” Oloyede said.
The registrar said the exercise is “so far so good,” adding “some centres that were implicated in examination malpractice last year, not in Kwara State though, have repackaged themselves this year, moving from one centre to another,” he said.
According to him, JAMB had strengthened its collaboration with the Corporate Affairs Commission to prevent operators of blacklisted centres from re-entering the system.
“Once you are a director of a failed CBT centre, you cannot resurrect anywhere in the country. We now have access to directors’ details, including their NIN, to prevent abuse,” he said.
He said staff and proctors previously implicated in malpractice had also been barred from participating in future examinations.
“All individuals involved have their NINs flagged. If they move elsewhere, they will destroy that centre because we will not approve it,” Oloyede said.
Oloyede said computers used in delisted centres had also been permanently barred from the JAMB system.
“Once a computer set is found belonging to a centre we have delisted, it can never come back to our system, even if sold to another CBT centre,” he said.
According to him, JAMB had detected a few breaches and had invited security agencies to investigate, noting that such actions were not only infractions against the board but also violations of Nigerian law.
