JAMB to compensate UTME candidates posted outside their preferred centres
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has issued warned against what it described as persistent misinformation surrounding its examination centre placements.
The board said it would offer a cash reward to anyone who could provide credible evidence that a candidate was posted outside their chosen examination town.
In a statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s public communication advisor, the board said candidates were given the liberty to select their preferred examination town at the point of registration.
Contrary to widely circulated claims, the board insisted that no candidate was assigned to a town different from the one they selected.
“Some parents are continually being deceived, misled, and duped by their wards and some secondary school proprietors who continue to propagate the falsehood that JAMB assigns candidates to centres outside their chosen examination towns,” the statement partly said.
JAMB promised a cash reward to anyone who could present verifiable proof of such a case to prove the “false but popular narrative”.
The proof, the board said, must be submitted within 96 hours to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) via WhatsApp on 08056003030 for independent verification.
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