The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has withdrawn the licences of 11 centres selling the e-PIN for registration for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

The centres were found to be charging candidates above the amount of money fixed by JAMB for the sale of examination instruments.

JAMB had fixed the cost of e-PIN for registration for N3,500 and the cost of materials for N500, while N700 was for the computer-based test centres, totalling N4,700.

JAMB Registrar Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who spoke during an interactive session with stakeholders at the headquarters of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Abuja on Tuesday, said the board discovered that some of the centres were selling the e-PIN for as high as N8, 000.

Oloyede said charging above the stipulated N4,700 for the 2020 UTME registration was illegitimate and ”would destroy the nation as it was an act of fraud and corruption.”

Centres whose licences were withdrawn for selling JAMB form at N5,000 included Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa and Adazi-Nnukwu ICT/CBT.

Others are New Kings and Queens Bayelsa, for selling at N5,500; Brightfield Secondary School Delta, for selling between N6,000 and N8,000; A-Pagen Consolidated, Port Harcourt, for selling at N5,000; and Influential School, Port Harcourt, for selling at N6,000.

Also sanctioned were Emkenlyn Computers and Nneameka Secondary School, Anambra State.

Oloyede stated, “Prior to 2018, we sold the form for N5,000, but the Federal Government considered so many things and felt it was high. And in 2018, President Muhammadu Buhari decided that the cost should be slashed which brought the cost to N3,500.”

The registrar said the proliferation of tutorial centres was a major concern, stating that most of the centres engaged in fraudulent activities during registration and examination.

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