The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday introduced that it had resumed the 2023 Direct Entry registration nationwide.
The Registrar of JAMB, pProfessor Is-haq Oloyede, who made this recognized at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja, mentioned that the DE registration would come to an in depth on April 28, 2023.
Whereas lamenting the excessive stage of forgery of A Stage certificates used for the registration, Oloyede mentioned the board had launched new tips for checking such acts.
He mentioned, “You’ll recall that the board commenced the 2023 Direct Entry registration on Monday, twentieth February, 2023, however needed to instantly droop it following the invention of the plethora of gadgets and machinations to avoid and compromise the usual of A’ Stage {qualifications} required from DE candidates.
“Recall that latest joint operations of the Federal Ministry of Schooling and the Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offenses Fee on DE {qualifications} delivered to gentle a few of these unsavoury and nefarious actions.
“Bayero College, Kano has additionally persistently delivered to the fore the excessive fee of forgery of A’ Stage {qualifications} for DE.
For example, it was found that in earlier years, some candidates used have been rejected and solid A’ stage certificates/{qualifications} to register for Direct Entry and ultimately acquired admitted. For instance, out of 148 candidates verified by BUK, solely six have been discovered to be real. By implication, 142 of the outcomes have been solid.
“The Board, involved stakeholders and establishments are working diligently to detect such and those already discovered are being handled in keeping with the provisions of the legislation.”
Talking additional, Oloyede mentioned the Board would solely settle for 13 {qualifications}/certificates for the 2023 Direct Entry registration, which embrace; first diploma, college diploma, Larger Nationwide Diploma, Atypical Nationwide Diploma /Nationwide Diploma and Nigerian Certificates in Schooling.
Others are Interim Joint Matriculation Board A’ Stage, Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board A’ Stage,
NABTEB Superior Nationwide Enterprise Certificates, NABTEB Superior Nationwide Technical Certificates, NABTEB GCE-A’ Stage (2015 – 2021), Larger Islamic Research Certificates by NBAIS, Worldwide Baccalaureate and the Nationwide Registered Nurse /Nationwide Registered Midwife.
He, nevertheless, mentioned that the 127 candidates who had earlier registered for the 2023 DE earlier than the train was suspended can be requested to return to the registration facilities and replace their purposes.
The JAMB boss additionally revealed that the info financial institution put in place to handle challenges related to the A’ Stage {qualifications}
had now been renamed as ‘Nigeria Submit-secondary Schooling Information System’.
On the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Oloyede mentioned JAMB had launched new measures within the conduct of the examination and known as for understanding.
“The Board has instituted some measures that are to be deployed in the course of the 2023 UTME train. Even supposing the improvements have been examined and licensed, but it isn’t unlikely that some hiccups may spring up when the brand new expertise is deployed reside and nationwide. We subsequently solicit your help and understanding as we promptly deal with any unexpected circumstances.
“One main function of the brand new dispensation is that no examination can be allowed to happen after one hour of its scheduled begin time as a result of the Board has found that a few of the issues reported on the facilities are contrived to delay the graduation of a session in some facilities with a view to safe undue benefit for the delayed candidates.
“Consequently, any session that, for no matter motive(s), couldn’t take off inside one hour of its schedule is robotically rescheduled. When such occurs, affected candidates are anticipated to file out of the examination corridor into the ready corridor and await the brand new scheduled time and place which is more than likely to be the identical or the next day,” he mentioned.