UTME: JAMB Cancels Registration Of 817 Candidates Over ‘Impersonation’

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has cancelled UTME registrations of 817 candidates in the country.

Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, broke the news at a meeting with stakeholders on Tuesday.

The JAMB boss said the registrations were invalidated over identified infractions bordering on the use of strange biometric fingerprints in the registration process.

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Oloyede said some registration officers in the affected 178 Computer Based Test (CBT) centres added one of their fingerprints to complete the registration process for the candidates.

He, however, said the 817 students would be given another opportunity to re-register for the exam with the centres bearing the cost.

“For the students who allowed other people to add their fingers to their registration procedure. We found that some of them were only naive, because you will hear them saying my finger was hot,  and the man added his own. And you allowed him to add his own?” he queried.

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“Some of them did it deliberately for impersonation but we can’t identify those who are genuine from those who are not genuine. We will cancel all of them. All the registrations and we will ask them to re-register.

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