Candidates are lamenting the difficulties involved in obtaining JAMB pins from designated banks on the payment of N5,500 and the subsequent hassles in getting registered. Candidates describes the process cumbersome and frustrating as they have to queue as early as 2 or 3 a.m. in some cases in banks just to acquire pins.
Some times, they spent the entire day waiting endlessly without results as the bank officials end up telling them that they could not access the site for the pins. This normally warranted them to spend almost an entire week trying to get the ePin and when they eventually succeeds, they start facing the task of registration at overcrowded centres.
Several Candidates are blaming JAMB for not allowing Cyber Cafes to Do the Registration.
Dr. Benjamin, Jamb information office explained in a statement why the board banned Cyber cafes from registering candidates for the examination, noting that activities in the cafes damaged records and statistics of candidates.
“In as much as we want to be inclusive, we cannot look the other way while students’ records and national statistics are mutilated He said.
Reasons Why JAMB Banned Cyber Cafes Registration
According to Fabian Benjamin, most problems associated with candidates’ registration such as wrong spellings of names, wrongful placement of passport photograph and others emanates from the business centres at registration points.
“Don’t forget, it is virtually impossible to regulate the activities of these business centres as their mode of operations did not provide necessary details about them.
“These problems created by cafes make information gathering, processing and administration of examination cumbersome as records and data of candidates are distorted.
“The accreditation centers are on the board’s website for easy identification cohesion and smooth operation,” it explained.
He added that the board would continue to expand the frontiers and channels of the sales of the pins in virtually all the banks, with a view to bringing the services to the door step of every Nigerian child desirous of qualitative tertiary education.
According to the statement, examination is a serious business and it cannot be left open the way some people want it to be.
“We again urge Nigerians particularly anxious candidates not to fall prey to unsuspecting and dubious individuals who parade themselves as agents of JAMB with the intention to defraud them.
“The board’s e-brochures and syllabus are on the CD to be given out to candidates and it is free and available as a guide to candidates to have a hitch-free registration exercise,”.
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