JAMB Blacklists 6 Staff of CBT Centres for Life Over Exam Malpractice
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that six staff of CBT centres caught in blank registration action, preparatory to examination malpractice, have been blacklisted for life from participating in JAMB activities.
Registrar of JAMB, Emeritus Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, said this on Monday in an interview with journalists after an inspection of some CBT centres in Ilorin.
According to him, “Six staff of CBT centres have been blacklisted. They admitted to the offence and apologised. But instead of punishing the CBT centres like we initially did, we realised that we would be punishing the students, so we decided to identify the staff that were directly involved and blacklisted them.
“We have put them on our blacklist in JAMB, they will never at any time be involved in JAMB activities again even if they become a lecturer or Vice Chancellor in future.”
The JAMB registrar also said that any candidate that committed an examination infraction against any of the examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO, NABTEB has committed it against all of them, JAMB inclusive.
“Like our unionists used to say an injury to one is an injury to all, once you commit any examination infraction against any of the examination bodies, know very well that you’re no longer in good standing with JAMB, don’t bother to run to us.
“We want clean people and if you’re not clean as a CBT centre, we won’t consider you,” he stressed.
Oloyede also said that JAMB had so far registered a total number of 420,674 candidates for the 2025/2026 JAMB examination as of Monday afternoon, adding that so far no fewer than 32,435 candidates have registered for the exams as of Monday afternoon.
He also said that 124,632 candidates have entered the mock JAMB exams, putting the number of Trial-testing candidates at 331 so far.
Emeritus Professor Oloyede said that the exam body has a target of two million candidates for the exams by the time the exercise closes on May 5, 2025.
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