by Kingseyi Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:10 pmThe Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB), on Wednesday, cautioned
private cyber cafe operators against
extortion of prospective candidates who
want to upload their results on the
board’s website.
The Head of Media of the board, Dr Fabian
Benjamin, gave the caution in an interview in
Abuja.
Benjamin said that the caution became
necessary following several complaints made to
the board by the victims, on fraudulent activities
by some private café operators.
He said the candidates complained of high
amount of money they were being charged by
such operators to upload their WAEC results on
JAMB website.
“Not only do they charge them high, they also
convince candidates who had already uploaded
their results on the site to do same again.
“Candidates who have had their results uploaded
at the point of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) registration need not do
that again, except for those who registered with
awaiting results.
“Those are the ones allowed to upload now on
our website.
“This upload should not cost more than N100.
“No cyber café should charge more than this
amount, however, if candidates can locate any of
our Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres, it is
free to make the upload there,” Benjamin said.
A visit to some of the cyber cafés in Bwari
revealed that while some charge a negotiable
N500, few charge up to N1, 000 for the result
upload.
The exercise follows the recent release of 2018
WAEC results and the announcement by JAMB
that“leaders of institutions agreed that the First
Choice Admission would be conducted from July
2 to Oct. 16’’.
According to the board, the Second Choice
Admission is to commence from Oct.17 to
Dec.17. (NAN)
Board (JAMB), on Wednesday, cautioned
private cyber cafe operators against
extortion of prospective candidates who
want to upload their results on the
board’s website.
The Head of Media of the board, Dr Fabian
Benjamin, gave the caution in an interview in
Abuja.
Benjamin said that the caution became
necessary following several complaints made to
the board by the victims, on fraudulent activities
by some private café operators.
He said the candidates complained of high
amount of money they were being charged by
such operators to upload their WAEC results on
JAMB website.
“Not only do they charge them high, they also
convince candidates who had already uploaded
their results on the site to do same again.
“Candidates who have had their results uploaded
at the point of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) registration need not do
that again, except for those who registered with
awaiting results.
“Those are the ones allowed to upload now on
our website.
“This upload should not cost more than N100.
“No cyber café should charge more than this
amount, however, if candidates can locate any of
our Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres, it is
free to make the upload there,” Benjamin said.
A visit to some of the cyber cafés in Bwari
revealed that while some charge a negotiable
N500, few charge up to N1, 000 for the result
upload.
The exercise follows the recent release of 2018
WAEC results and the announcement by JAMB
that“leaders of institutions agreed that the First
Choice Admission would be conducted from July
2 to Oct. 16’’.
According to the board, the Second Choice
Admission is to commence from Oct.17 to
Dec.17. (NAN)
