The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced that national registration for 2023 Direct Entry has commenced.
The Registrar of JAMB, Dr Is-haq Oloyede, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
According to the JAMB chairman, the DE registration period would end on April 28, 2023.
Oloyede expressed concern about the high rate of forgery of A Level certificates used for registration.
Meanwhile, the JAMB Registrar said the board had introduced new guidelines to check such acts.
“You will recall that the board began the 2023 Direct Entry registration on Monday, 20th February, 2023, but had to suspend it immediately following the discovery of the plethora of devices and machinations to circumvent and compromise the standard of A’ Level qualifications required from DE candidates,” he said.
“Recall that recent combined operations of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on DE qualifications came to light some of these unsavoury and nefarious activities.
“Bayero University, Kano has also consistently highlighted the high rate of forging of A’ Level credentials for DE.
“For instance, it was revealed that in past years, some candidates used unacceptable and forged A’ level certificates/qualifications to register for Direct Entry and were subsequently allowed. For example, just six of the 148 candidates verified by BUK were found to be authentic. As a result, 142 of the results were forged.
“The Board, relevant stakeholders, and institutions are working tirelessly to find such, and those that have already been discovered are being dealt with in accordance with the law.”
Oloyede went on to say that the Board will only recognize 13 qualifications/certificates for the 2023 Direct Entry registration, which include a first degree, a university diploma, a Higher National Diploma, an Ordinary National Diploma/National Diploma, and a Nigeria Certificate in Education.
“Others include Interim Joint Matriculation Board A’ Level, Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board A’ Level, NABTEB Advanced National Business Certificate, NABTEB Advanced National Technical Certificate, NABTEB GCE-A’ Level (2015 – 2021), Higher Islamic Studies Certificate by NBAIS, International Baccalaureate, and National Registered Nurse/National Registered Midwife.”
He did, however, state that the 127 candidates who had already registered for the 2023 DE before to the suspension of the exercise would be asked to return to the registration centers and revise their applications.
The JAMB chairman also announced that the data bank set up to resolve issues with A’ Level credentials had been renamed the ‘Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System’.
Recalling the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Oloyede stated that JAMB had implemented new procedures in the exam’s management and asked for patience.
“The Board has instituted some measures which are to be deployed during the 2023 UTME exercise. Despite the fact that the innovations have been tested and certified, yet it is not unlikely that some hiccups might spring up when the new technology is deployed live and nationwide. We therefore solicit your support and understanding as we promptly address any unforeseen circumstances.
“One major feature of the new dispensation is that no examination would be allowed to take place after one hour of its scheduled start time because the Board has discovered that some of the problems reported at the centres are contrived to delay the commencement of a session in some centres with a view to securing undue advantage for the delayed candidates.
“Consequently, each session that, for whatever reason(s), could not take off within one hour of its schedule is immediately rescheduled. When this happens, affected candidates are expected to file out of the examination hall into the waiting hall and await the new scheduled date and time, which will most likely be the same or the following day,” he said.
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