Rita Odafe
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the resumption of the 2023 Direct Entry registration nationwide. Professor Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of JAMB, made the announcement during a press briefing on Monday in Abuja. The DE registration will close on April 28, 2023.
Oloyede expressed concern over the high level of forgery of A Level certificates used for the registration, and revealed that the board had introduced new guidelines to check such acts. He stated that out of 148 candidates verified by Bayero University, Kano, only six were found to be genuine, implying that 142 of the results were forged.
The Board will only accept 13 qualifications/certificates for the 2023 Direct Entry registration, including first degree, university diploma, Higher National Diploma, Ordinary National Diploma /National Diploma, Nigeria Certificate in Education, Interim Joint Matriculation Board A’ Level, Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board A’ Level, NABTEB Advanced National Business Certificate, NABTEB Advanced National Technical Certificate, NABTEB GCE-A’ Level (2015 – 2021), Higher Islamic Studies Certificate by NBAIS, International Baccalaureate and the National Registered Nurse /National Registered Midwife. The 127 candidates who had already registered for the 2023 DE before the exercise was suspended will be asked to return to the registration centres and update their application.
The JAMB boss also revealed that the data bank put in place to address challenges associated with the A’ Level qualifications had now been renamed as ‘Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System’. For the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Oloyede said JAMB had introduced new measures in the conduct of the exam and called for understanding. He added that no examination would be allowed to take place after one hour of its scheduled start time and any session that could not take off within one hour of its schedule would be automatically rescheduled.
