JAMB reacts to reports of posting candidates outside chosen exam towns, demands proof within 96 hours

• The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has powerfully denied reports that it assigned candidates to exam centres extracurricular their selected towns
• JAMB, successful a connection connected Saturday, emphasised that candidates take their preferred exam towns during registration, and the Board strictly assigns centres wrong those towns
• The Board challenged the nationalist to contiguous grounds of immoderate deviation wrong 96 hours, offering a fiscal reward for verifiable proof

Legit.ng writer Esther Odili has implicit 2 years of acquisition covering political parties and movements.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked rumours suggesting that it posts candidates to exam centres extracurricular the towns they selected.

JAMB dares critics to amusement impervious of posting candidates extracurricular chosen exam towns. Photo credit: @JAMBHQ
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In a statement issued connected Saturday successful Abuja, JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, clarified that candidates are ever assigned to centres wrong their chosen towns based connected disposable Computer-Based Test (CBT) facilities.

According to the connection shared connected JAMB's website connected X, Benjamin emphasised that the Board prioritises candidates’ convenience, ensuring that their introspection locations align with their preferences among listed options.

He stressed that candidates clasp the close to take their exam towns, and JAMB strictly adheres to those choices erstwhile making centre assignments.

“It is our steadfast content that immoderate parents are continually being deceived, misled, and defrauded by their wards and immoderate secondary schoolhouse proprietors who perpetuate this falsehood.“Let it beryllium unequivocally clear: astatine the clip of registration, candidates person the close to prime their preferred introspection town. JAMB subsequently assigns them to a centre wrong the selected town.“The baseless assertion that candidates are posted to towns antithetic from their choices is erroneous, malicious, and aimed solely astatine tarnishing the Board’s reputation. It does not happen.“The Board truthful challenges this mendacious yet fashionable communicative by offering a handsome fiscal reward to anyone who tin supply authentic impervious of adjacent 1 campaigner who has been posted extracurricular their chosen town,” helium said.

Benjamin added that, to guarantee transparency and to debar “being a justice successful one’s ain case”, specified impervious should, wrong the adjacent 96 hours, beryllium sent to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission WhatsApp number: 08056003030.

Legit.ng earlier reported that JAMB arrested 27 impersonators during the 2025 UTME and handed them implicit to the constabulary for prosecution.

The committee besides delisted 4 CBT centres implicit method failures, urging affected candidates to reprint their exam slips for caller venues and dates.

Meanwhile, JAMB addressed and apologised for a hijab-related incidental astatine Caleb University, blaming an overzealous information officer.

JAMB kicks disconnected 2025 UTME nationwide

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) began astatine assorted Computer-Based Test centres successful the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and different states of the federation.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), which monitored the development successful the FCT and its environs, reported that much than 2 cardinal candidates would beryllium penning the introspection nationwide.

JAMB adjusted the 2025 UTME commencement day to April 24, a time earlier than initially announced.

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Source: Legit.ng