JAMB Postpones UTME in Borno State
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday
postponed Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Borno State
following Friday killings by Boko Haram in Borno State.
There were reports on Friday that Boko Haram insurgents
attacked four communities in the State leaving scores of people dead including
some JAMB candidates.
But, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of JAMB,
Professor Dibu Ojerinde, while monitoring the conduct of the examination in
Centres within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja however debunked the reports,
saying the victims were not UTME candidates.
Prof. Ojerinde said the 400 candidates would be made to sit
for the examination at a date to be announced later by JAMB, adding that they would
be examined through the Computer Based Test (CBT).
Reacting to the reports of the killing of some UTME
candidates by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Prof. Ojerinde said, “They were
not JAMB candidates. Of course, they were attacked and Jamb candidates who
supposed to go to Maiduguri have decided to stay at home.
“We will cater for them using the Computer Based Test. We are
aware of that. In fact, they are just afraid of what would happen, that is why
they did not go there. So they are not precisely JAMB candidates.
In the meantime, JAMB has insisted that the Paper Pencil
Test (PPT) Examination mode would be scrapped from 2015, with all future
enrolment to be on Computer Based Test.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education,
MacJohn Nwaobiala, confirmed the information while also monitoring the UTME at
Base University, Abuja.
According to Nwaobiala, “The Computer Based Test is more
efficient. It is something that is global in nature. I know that a lot of work
has been done to ensure that by the time we transit completely next year to
CBT, more candidates will easily flow and join the process.
A total of one million, six hundred and six thousand, seven
hundred and fifty-three (1, 606, 753)candidates applied for the UTME
examination scheduled to be held in
three hundred and ninety-two (392) examination towns in Nigeria and seven (7) foreign
centres this year.
The 2014 examination was conducted in the three
modes namely, Computer Based Test (CBT), Dual Based Test (DBT) and Paper Pencil
Test (PPT).
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