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| JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede |
Due to technical issues experienced by some candidates while
sitting for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the body has stated that those candidates
who are affected would be rescheduled to reset the examination.
JAMB Registrar Prof. Is-haq Oloyede who made this
known yesterday said candidates who will reset the exams include those who were
logged out by the systems and could not answer the questions.
Oloyede, who blamed the hitches experienced in some centres
on faulty cables, said that the resit examination would not clash with the National
Examination Council examination scheduled to start on Monday.
The registrar said this on Thursday during a visit to the
headquarters of Punch Nigeria Limited in Magboro, Ogun State, in company with
top officials of JAMB.
He said, “When they talk about network problem, what they
mean is cable. When they had problem in Dutse, I sent somebody there and we
spent only N8,000 on cables. It does not cost money. It is because they put it
on the floor and people will step and damage them. And on the day of the
examination, that what was accounted for the hitches and questions not being
found.
“The challenge is not from JAMB. It is because cable is
failing between the candidate and our server in their offices. Our officers
went to the centres with our servers.
You don’t need connectivity all through the exam. With the technology we
are using, you only need six minutes to download and upload the questions.
Nobody should suffer it even if there was network failure.
“What I have seen today in Lagos is that we have a serious
problem. I will still put it to the board but, next year, we may appoint one
centre in each geopolitical zone to license the CBT centres and we will tell
them go and take over the centres for three months and give me the figure that
is available. Take N200 out of their N500 but take over the centre for three
months.’’
Oloyede, who noted that some candidates who registered late
in Lagos and Ogun states were posted to other states as a result of limited
spaces, denied that JAMB posted the candidates to where they did not choose.
“No single person was posted out of where he or she had
chosen. We have 65 centres in Lagos and we are to conduct examination within
seven days.
After 300,000 candidates had registered in Lagos, anybody
who registered thereafter deserved to choose a centre where it was
available. There is nothing I can do to
expand the space. What I can say is that it won’t happen next year. Next year,
I may not listen to NECO and WAEC. I will just fix my 20 days instead of seven
days. I did not want to extend beyond May 20 because I had given my word. The
CBT centres want us to extend beyond May 20, because it means more money for
them,’’ he said.
The former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin noted
that JAMB might empower Nigerians next year by involving them in pin vending
during registration for the examination.
“We paid N600m to banks in commission this year. What is
N600million to banks? You can empower 100,000 Nigerians if you can get them to
buy into it,’’ he said.
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