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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board

JAMB staff to spend 6 months in prison for stealing laptop, blames the devil

by Folarin Kehinde August 14, 2023

written by Folarin Kehinde

A Magistrate Court in Kado- Life Camp Abuja has sentenced a contract staff of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to six months in jail for stealing a laptop belonging to the board.

The culprit, Emmanuel Odey, allegedly stole the laptop on Thursday, 13 July 2023 at the board’s Zonal Office in Abuja, contravening Section 287-289 of the Penal Code.

This was revealed in JAMB’s weekly bulletin which was published on Monday.

The bulletin read in part, “Odey, a cleaner employed for cleaning services at the Board’s FCT Zonal Office, broke down in tears and admitted before the court to stealing the HP laptop worth N350,000 to pay his house rent that has expired.

“While pleading for leniency, he confessed that he had acted alone but blamed the devil for his act and begged to be given a second chance. “

According to the bulletin, during the court proceedings, the senior magistrate Egbe Joshua recognized that Odey was a first-time offender and that he had shown remorse for his crime.

“The defendant, a first-time offender, had shown remorse and had not wasted the precious time of the court and recognized youthful exuberance as a possible factor in the crime.

“The Senior Magistrate summarily tried and convicted the defendant under Section 112(8) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, and sentenced him to six months imprisonment with an option of a fine of five thousand naira, ” it added.

The Board added that in an earlier bid to find the missing HP laptop, it set up an investigating team headed by Superintendent of Police, Joy Abuma, whose “painstaking investigation” led to the arrest of the defendant and his eventual confession that he had hidden the laptop at his sister’s residence.

August 14, 2023 0 comments

Opinion

Jamb is obsolete and – – – – –

by Folarin Kehinde July 2, 2022

written by Folarin Kehinde

By Amamchukwu Okafor

I take on Joint Admission and Matriculation Board JAMB.

JAMB is the standard University entrance examination in Nigeria. The legal instrument establishing the Board was promulgated by the Act (No. 2 of 1978) of the Federal Military Government on 13th February, 1978. It was amended and codified into Decree No. 33 of 1989, which took effect from 7th December, 1989. That’s a long time ago. We can agree that the Act needs revisiting.

JAMB has been an obstacle both to Nigerian students seeking university education and to university autonomy.

Every year JAMB administers matriculation examinations which is valid for only one year. It also limits your university choices to ONLY 3 schools.

In essence, an applicant’s JAMB score is useful only in a given year for only 3 universities.

And in reality, if you missed the first choice university, you may not be considered in the other schools and would have to retake JAMB the next year (if you wish to get a Uni education).

Sadly, there’s no clearly defined score that guarantees admission. Like IELTS Official and TOEFL®, even worse, JAMB result has a validity of one year and limited choices for schools.

JAMB effectively obscures university entrance process such that it is nearly impossible for foreign students to attend Nigerian universities. Universities in Ghana, SouthAfrica, and even Benin Republic admits students from Nigeria and other countries. Loss of revenues and absence of diversity in Nigerian universities.

But JAMB registrars have always been university #professors. Yet, they fail to radically change the system, only boastful about how much revenue JAMB raked in. But JAMB isn’t a revenue spinner. Every year JAMB declares profit that it #extorted from applicants who take the exam multiple times.

There’s so much ills that JAMB is doing and so much good it isn’t doing. At this point, I call on Change.org, Change.org Foundation and Policy Shapers who are already doing so much to fight some of the subtle institutional rigidities to join me and take on Jamb.

July 2, 2022 0 comments

Headlines

Candidates To Pay N700 For Mock UTME – JAMB

by Leading Reporters June 2, 2021

written by Leading Reporters

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that candidates are expected to pay N700 to the Computer Based Test centres before taking their mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

JAMB made the announcement three days before the commencement of the mock examination via its Twitter handle.

The payment is different from the N3,500 paid by the candidates for UTME forms (ePINs), and N500 for the reading text.

It was also learnt this is different from the N700 expected to be paid to the CBT centres for the examination.

“All candidates sitting the 2021 Mock examination scheduled for Thursday, 3rd June 2021 are advised to go to their assigned centres with N700. The amount would be paid to the Centre owner as the mock examination fee,” the examination body said.

Earlier, JAMB asked candidates, who had indicated interests to sit for the mock-UTME and had earlier printed the examination slips, were advised to reprint, following the shift in examination date.

“Candidates, who had registered for the 2021 UTME and indicated interest to sit for the optional mock examination, are to reprint their mock notification slips.

“This is consequent on the change of date for the mock- UTME earlier scheduled for Thursday, May 20 and now to hold on Thursday, June 3.

“It is imperative to reprint as the new slip will have a new date.

“As disclosed earlier, the optional mock notification slip can be printed from anywhere that candidates find convenient, provided they have internet access.”

The board explained that each slip contained candidates’ details such as registration number and most importantly, the centre they were to sit for the examination within their chosen examination town.

It added that the slip also contained the expected time to be at the centre.

Candidates, JAMB further advised, were expected to print and study the contents in the slip to avoid mix up in the location of their centres and the name of the examination centres.

June 2, 2021 0 comments