Several Students have been killed in a road accident on their way to write the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Examination,JAMB
The accident reportedly occurred on Saturday morning along the Oyo-Ogbomoso road in Oyo State
Reports indicate that the accident happened when a commercial vehicle carrying the students to a JAMB centre in Ogbomosho had a brake failure
Meanwhile , JAMB said it arrested 27 impersonators in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Exam body noted that the 27 impersonators apprehended had been handed over to the Nigerian police for immediate prosecution.
The board also announced that it delisted four Computer-Based Test, CBT centres that had failed to meet the stringent technical standards required for the UTME.
The board said the delisted centres are Adventure Associate, Behind Sheshe Supermarket, Off Hadejia Road, Kano, Kano State; Saadatu Rimi College of Education, Zaria Road, Naibawa, Kano, Kano State; Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 2, 96km Sokoto-Jega Road, Tambuwal and Penta M & F Technical Services Ltd, Centre 1, 96km Sokoto-Jega Road, Tambuwal.
Spokesman of the Board,Fabian Benjamin lauded centres that are doing very well but warned that any centre that fell short of ethical standards will be blacklisted
“While JAMB commends the 883 centres that have demonstrated exceptional performance, it unequivocally warns that any centre which failed the ethical or technical standards , regardless of ownership, will be blacklisted,”
“Candidates who were previously scheduled to take their exams at the delisted centres are urged to urgently reprint their examination notification slips to access their new centres and rescheduled dates. We regret any inconvenience this may cause, but we will not tolerate excuses by candidates who fail to reprint their slip to get their new schedules,”
It added “As of Friday, 25th April, 2025, over 900,000 candidates have successfully completed the UTME out of the 2,083,600 registered for the 2025 examination.”
