JAMB to monitor 2017 UTME with CCTV Cameras- Registrar

The Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has announced that candidates, who wish to sit for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), will take the examination under the surveillance of Closed Circuit Television Cameras.
Prof. Oloyede who stated this in a news briefing said that the measure was introduced with the aim of  preventing examination malpractice during this year's UTME.

“We believe that certain things should be done. For example, we are conducting the Computer-Based Test, I’m not aware of anywhere in the world where you do the CBT without CCTV. If you are not caught during the examination, you can be caught after the examination because the whole thing will be under coverage.

Prof. Oloyede noted that the measure had become necessary to further strengthen public examinations, particularly entry level examinations into higher institutions and that operators of CBT centres have been duly informed of the new requirement and JAMB will not compromise beginning from 2017 UTME.

According to Prof Oloyede, operators of the CBT centres who fail to comply with the order to install CCTV cameras prior to the examination may not be accredited for the UTME.