The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board announced on Saturday that more than 1.16 million people have registered to take the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry examinations.
Prof Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of JAMB, stated this on Saturday during a monitoring tour of some computer-based test centers in Abuja.
During the tour, Oloyede visited CBT centers at Total Child International School, Dutse, the JAMB Abuja zonal office, Life Camp, Global Distance Learning Institute, and Sascon International College, all in Abuja.
He also stated that the board would not extend the registration deadline for the 2023 UTME, while warning centers against candidate extortion.
Registration for the 2023 UTME began on January 14, 2023, and is set to end on Tuesday.
But Oloyede said, “Registration is going on well except for some of these schools. UTME is not a school-based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what that school, Stella Maris is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up mixing up the telephone numbers of the candidates.
“That is a way of extorting the parents and we will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that. One of the reasons is that we will tell every CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchases of PIN and bulk registration.
“So, if a centre sells more than one PIN to a source or collects money for more than one PIN from a source then we will sanction such a centre.”