The Nigerian government through the education ministry is planning to establish 774 computer based test centers in local governments across the nation as announced by education minister Mallam Shekarau while monitoring the conduct of the ongoing examination in some centres in Abuja.
According to him, constructing the new CBT centres in all the local council areas of the federation would help in the smooth conduct of the examination, adding that it would also eliminate abuse by some private centres.
He added that about 1 million candidates that participated in the last UTME have gotten their results.
“I am impressed and the purpose of my coming out to conduct this inspection is to compare with what I am reading in the office. For quite a number of weeks, we have been discussing with the management of JAMB, receiving all the compliments and observation from the general public, from stakeholders and we have been sufficiently convinced in the office that all was going to be well, we are satisfied; it is a very good new innovation.
“From what I have seen, I am convinced that what we are told, and read in the books, files, memos from JAMB are correct, they have improved. There is hardly anything on earth that is without one problem or the other, my investigation is that there are one or two areas of complaints, which is less than five percent. With over 400 centres nationwide, there were problems in just about four or five centres, which have been rectified,” he said.
