The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB, on Sunday, said it would partner with
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to conduct
public examination through Computer Based
Test, CBT, for Nigerians abroad.
The examination board also said universities
that charged more than N2,000 from applicants
for its post-UTME examination will be made to
refund the excess payment.
JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian
Benjamin, made these known in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in
Abuja.
Mr. Benjamin said that the collaboration was to
enhance the conduct of Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination, UTME, for foreign
candidates in 2018.
He said 2017 UTME was conducted for foreign
candidates on September 30 in Gambia, Saudi
Arabia, United Kingdom, Ghana, Ivory Coast,
Benin Republic, Ethiopia, South Africa and
Cameroun.
According to him, although the conduct of the
examination was not justifiable, in terms of
monetary value, there is need for JAMB to
collaborate, to promote growth in the education
sector.
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“We are already promoting CBT in line with
international best practices; we have taken it
to some countries in Africa, we need to do
more to encourage the practice.
“We have even gone ahead to see how we can
put some countries on the global map by
conducting our public examination there
through CBT.
“What we want to do is to partner with the
ministry to be able to key into the global
technology revolution as part of our foreign
policy.
“We must be able to maximise profit, especially
from West African countries that we are
offering assistance, through scholarship, to
school in Nigeria.
“We cannot achieve much by looking at things
from naira and kobo, but through diplomatic
relations there will be adequate room to gain
through conduct of examination abroad,” he
said.
The head of public relations explained that
foreign candidates sat for examination in one
session based on local time of their various
countries, adding that the questions were
deployed from the Board’s headquarters.
He decried message on the social media that
the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had
directed the refund of post UTME fee,
describing the information as false and could
create confusion in the public domain.
Mr. Benjamin urged the public to disregard the
information, saying that institutions that had
charged more than N2,000 would be asked to
make refund of the excess.
He described as unfortunate a situation where
some institutions could not adhere to the
minister’ directive about the payment of post-
UTME.
