The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has enjoined candidates writing the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to desist from giving their details to fraudsters.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, gave the advice while fielding questions from journalists during the monitoring exercise at the JAMB Professional Centre in Bwari, Abuja, on Friday, April 19, 2024.

Oloyede said: “Today’s examination is very important to us because we have done so much engineering that we have been trying to do in the last seven years and we are only successful about it today for the first time.

“Those who are fraudsters, who are doing all sorts of things, they know they are in trouble because for the first time, we are able to do certain things that we have been aspiring to do.

“We have found out that some of the candidates are giving their details to fraudsters and fortunately, we thank the security agencies as they have been marvellously good to us.

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“Almost all the persons that have been doing this (fraudulent activities) are already in their nets.  I won’t want to mention the numbers but I’m very happy to tell you that they are in the nets.

“We thank the Inspector-General of Police, Director-General of the State Secret Service (SSS), Director-General of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corp, and the Nigerian Police Force National CyberCrime Centre (NPF-NCC).”

A first-time candidate, Yusrah Umar, commended the examination’s conduct and called JAMB to increase the timing allocated to each subject for better performance.

Another candidate, Victor Ezekiel, said there were no technical glitches as the systems worked effectively during the examination.

Over 500,000 candidates are expected to have written the examination by the end of the first day.

About 1.9 million candidates are expected to write the UTME scheduled to commence on April 19 and end on April 29.

The Star