The move was said to have been designed to further tighten the noose around examination cheats and their collaborators.

According to a report from the board’s newsletter, JAMBulletin, published on Monday, the decision, which emanated from a rigorous review of the 2022 UTME exercise, was said to be borne out of the need to close all loopholes noticed during the examination.

The report reads: “It is to be noted that examination malpractice is one of the major obstacles faced by all public examination bodies globally, hence the Board has consistently taken steps to confront this monster frontally.

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“It should be borne in mind that identity theft is one of the prominent channels that perpetrators used to achieve their nefarious aims. To combat this menace, the Board has taken full advantage of technology by introducing, among others, biometric capturing of a candidate’s ten fingers during UTME Registration so as to ensure that there is a convincing match between the fingerprints captured and those presented by the candidate at the examination venue.

“It is the conviction of the Board that any scenario other than this is an invitation to examination security breach. Therefore, it is against the backdrop of this robust initiative of capturing all ten fingers of candidates rather than just one or two fingers from each hand, as was hitherto the case, that the Board had decided that the era whereby some candidates would present themselves at the examination venue and claim difficulty to be biometrically verified and expect the system to allow them to sit the examination is gone for good.

“It should be recalled that the Board, out of magnanimity, had allowed such candidates to be rescheduled for the Mop-Up UTME, which was introduced in 2017. However, the Board has, of late, realised the futility of such an arrangement after assessing the process and its impact on the entire examination value chain.”

As a result, the management of the board said it had resolved that all candidates must be verified to sit their examination as there would be no more Mop-Up UTME  for whatever reason.

It said to cater for the few that might have genuine cases of inability to be captured, such candidates were to clearly indicate such difficulty from the point of registration so that they could be assigned to a centre situated within the National Headquarters of the Board for close monitoring.

It said the measure was not only to sanitise the examination process but also to ensure that the hard-earned reputation of the Board was not impugned.

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The infractions which the board is warning the centre owners against are contained in its operational code.

The warning was issued in a statement released at the end of its management committee meeting held to assess the conduct of the 2022 UTME.

The statement reads in part: “The Board is not here to subordinate the interest of Nigeria to any other interests. JAMB would, therefore, not tolerate any infraction, no matter how small. If the tempo of JAMB activities is too high for any centre, they are to at liberty seek other areas of engagement as there are so many things people can do outside partnering with JAMB.”

The board said the CBT centre owners should ensure full compliance with extant rules and regulations in their dealings with it.

According to the board, there would be no hiding place for any wrongdoer.

Centre owners or other fraudulent elements, JAMB also warned should steer clear of the board’s examination as it had state-of-the-art technology at its disposal to detect any infractions committed before, during and after the UTME.

It enjoined centres to be of good conduct or be disengaged forthwith.

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