Applicants of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have deserted Cyber cafés in Bwari, Abuja, as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Thursday commenced the 2019/20 registration.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that JAMB commenced the online registration in its Computer Based Test (CBT) centres across the country.
NAN reports that the Board’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said recently that it would stop the use of cyber cafés for registration of candidates, to stop extortion of candidates by these outlets.
Oloyede said that the stoppage of these commercial vendors would also put an end to the mix-up of candidates’ data by the vendors.
NAN checks at some of the major cafes in town, as well as the JAMB’s CBT centre in Kogo, showed that while the cafés were abandoned, the CBT centre was making brisk business, as applicants struggled to maintain a queue.
One of the cafe operators, Mathias Ugo, said that all they were left to do…
