The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede has said the body has so far sentenced five persons to jail for selling fake forms to candidates for the 2017/2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
Oloyede, who disclosed this at the 2017 Nigerian Academy of Letters
Annual lecture also explained that there was interruption in the sales of the forms because the body wanted to sanitize the system to avoid cases of people selling non-existent forms to candidates.
The JAMB boss further said that the board had eliminated the use of scratch cards due to the fact that many students were victims of extortion from cybercafés.
According to him, “We are not going to use the scratch cards. We are going to use existing banks and we will make sure that there will be no offline registration because what happens is that people go to the bush, exploit students and collect money from them but render the worst service to them. For some of the students it is mismatch of picture and data”.