The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says that over 1.16 million tertiary institutions admission seekers have registered to sit the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

JAMB registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday during a monitoring tour of some CBT centres.

Mr Oloyede, during the tour, visited CBT centres in Dutse, JAMB Abuja zonal office, and others said the board would not extend the deadline for the 2023 Unified UTME registration while warning centres against extortion of candidates.

“UTME is not a school-based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what some schools are doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up missing the telephone number of the candidates.

“So once they keep the telephone number of candidates it is unlikely that the candidates when we are contacting them to make a change in their timetable, you send a text to them, and it will not get to them,” he said.

According to him, after they have graduated from school and want to change course, they don’t have access to it.

“And that is a way of extorting the parents, and we will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that.

“We will tell every CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchases of pins 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,” he said.

He urged candidates to report extortion cases, saying that there was a code for candidates to reach the board when they came across any case of extortion while promising there would be a reward for such an act.

Recall that the sale of the 2023 UTME commenced on January 14 and will close on February 14. 

(NAN)