The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Wednesday,
cautioned private cyber cafe operators against extortion of prospective
candidates who want to upload their results on the board’s website.
The
Head of Media of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, gave the caution in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Benjamin
said that the caution became necessary following several complaints
made to the board by the victims, on fraudulent activities by some
private café operators.
He
said the candidates complained of high amount of money they were being
charged by such operators to upload their WAEC results on JAMB website.
“Not
only do they charge them high, they also convince candidates who had
already uploaded their results on the site to do same again.
“Candidates
who have had their results uploaded at the point of the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration need not do that
again, except for those who registered with awaiting results.
“Those are the ones allowed to upload now on our website.
“This upload should not cost more than N100.
“No
cyber café should charge more than this amount, however, if candidates
can locate any of our Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres, it is free to
make the upload there,” Benjamin said.
NAN
correspondent who visited some of the cyber cafés in Bwari reports that
while some charge a negotiable N500, few charge up to N1, 000 for the
result upload.
The
exercise follows the recent release of 2018 WAEC results and the
announcement by JAMB that“leaders of institutions agreed that the First
Choice Admission would be conducted from July 2 to Oct. 16’’.
According to the board, the Second Choice Admission is to commence from Oct.17 to Dec.17.
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