817 applicants who submitted UTME applications from across the federation have been declared ineligible by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).Information Guide Nigeria
At a gathering with JAMB’s stakeholders in Abuja, registrar Is-haq Oloyede announced the information.
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaThe JAMB director claimed that violations including the use of unusual biometric fingerprints throughout the registration procedure led to the invalidation of the registrations.
In order to finish the registration procedure for the candidates, Oloyede claimed that some registration officers in the 178 Computer Based Test (CBT) centers in question added one of their fingerprints.
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He, however, said the 817 students would be given another opportunity to re-register for the exam with the centres bearing the cost.
“For the students who allowed other people to add their fingers to their registration procedure. We found that some of them were only naive, because you will hear them saying my finger was hot, and the man added his own. And you allowed him to add his own?” he queried.NYSC portal
“Some of them did it deliberately for impersonation but we can’t identify those who are genuine from those who are not genuine. We will cancel all of them. All the registrations and we will ask them to re-register.
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“The centres involved, we have just met with them, and they all confessed, nobody is disputing it, even students that were telling lies, they know we have the technology that won’t allow any lie to be accommodated.
“On their own (CBT owners), they suggested the solution. We will cancel the registrations of those people concerned and we will send a message to them to go back to the very centres where they were registered and the CBT centres will pay to the board the cost of registration of the candidates.”JAMB Result
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Live, Study and Work in Canada. No Payment is Required! Hurry Now click here to Apply >> Immigrate to CanadaThe JAMB registrar advised candidates not to allow anyone to add their finger during capturing, adding that such amount to impersonation.
“By adding his or her finger to your registration, it means he or her can change all your particulars when you are not there. You know your finger is what is used to identify you. The person can change your examination centre like say from Lagos to Ibadan, and on the exam day you won’t be able to write the exam,” he added.
“That is why we put in place a device that will throw up any strange finger that is not yours and that is why we were able to identify them.”