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May 4, 2019
JointAdmissions and Matriculation Board has delisted 76 Computer-Based Test Centresfor various infractions during the recently concluded Unified TertiaryMatriculation Examination, raising fears that results from those centres may becancelled.
JAMBannounced the delisting just as it appointed a Senior Advocate of Nigeria toprosecute about 100 persons allegedly involved in various malpractices duringthe UTME that held between April 11 and 18.
JAMBRegistrar, Is-haq Oloyede, stated this in Abuja while speaking on ‘Admissionsinto tertiary educational institutions in Nigeria’ at the 23rd annual seminarof the Nigerian Academy of Education.
Theboard had on April 22 said no fewer than 100 UTME candidates were arrested nationwideby operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and the police.Oloyede, narrated how the Closed CircuitTelevision Cameras caught some of the students cheating, saying professionalwriters hid in toilets and later replaced the UTME candidates who pretendedthey  went to the toilet to easethemselves