The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that six staff members of CBT centres caught in blank registration action, preparatory to examination malpractices, have been blacklisted for life from participating in the Board’s activities.
Registrar of JAMB, Emeritus Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, disclosed this on Monday during an interview with journalists after an inspection of some CBT centres in Ilorin.
He said: “Six staff members of CBT centres have been blacklisted. They admitted to the offence and apologised. But instead of punishing the CBT centres like we initially did, we realised that we would be punishing the students, so we decided to identify the staff members that were directly involved and blacklisted them.
“We have put them on our blacklist in JAMB. They will never at any time be involved in JAMB activities again even if they become a lecturer or Vice Chancellor in future.”
The JAMB registrar also said that any candidate that committed an examination infraction against any of the examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO NABTEB has committed it against all of them, JAMB inclusive.
“Like our unionists used to say an injury to one is an injury to all. Once you commit any examination infraction against any of the examination bodies, know very well that you’re no longer in good standing with JAMB. Don’t bother to run to us.
“We want clean people, and if you’re not clean as a CBT centre, we won’t consider you,” he stressed.
Oloyede also said that JAMB has so far registered a total of 420,674 candidates for the 2025/2026 JAMB examination as of Monday afternoon, adding that so far no fewer than 32,435 candidates had registered for the exams as of Monday afternoon.
He added that 124,632 candidates have entered for the mock JAMB exams, putting the number of Trial-testing candidates at 331 so far.
Oloyede said that the exam body had a target of two million candidates for the exams by the time the exercise closed on May 5, 2025.
The JAMB registrar, who put the number of underage registrants
(candidates who would be less than 16 years by October) at 4,997 as of Monday afternoon, berated those he described as selfish parents that crave to make their children’s educational pursuits their victory medals.
“You can see how we’re deceiving ourselves in this country. Before the maximum figure would be about 300. In a situation where we’ve just started in five days and we have a total number of 4996 underage registrants; by the end of today, there will be more than 5000.
Oloyede narrated the story of a student at University of Ilorin years back whose parents mandated them to study Medicine, and three months to the end of his final examinations decided not to complete the programme against all pleas.
He said the student later sat for JAMB and went to the University of Ibadan to pursue Mass Communications, a course of his interest and came out with First Class, stressing jocularly that he wished Unilorin would grant him three months to complete the Medicine programme and dash his parents the certificate.
“Many of these parents have misdirected their children. They want to use their children’s early education to decorate their CVs. Parents are supposed to be selfless, but unfortunately what we are having these days that is common these days are selfish parents.”
Answering questions on reasons for allowing underage candidates in the exams, the JAMB registrar said that all underage candidates were made to sign an indemnity form or undertaking to meet up with academic ability or be sanctioned if such fails to meet up with claimed exceptional intelligence.
The JAMB registrar also said that, earlier in the registration exercise, 10 institutions were caught registering candidates in the night.
After he visits to CBT centres to monitor the registration for the 2025/2026 JAMB registration, the JAMB registrar said that the exercise was going well in all centres.
“Going around, I’m very proud of those on the fields, CBT centres, my staff members and everyone involved. I think it’s better by far. People know we’ll not take anything less than standard, and they’ve done very well. We also thank security agencies. They’ve assisted us so well”.
At the University of Ilorin, the host Vice Chancellor, Professor Wahab Olasupo Egbewole (SAN), in his remarks affirmed Emeritus Professor Oloyede’s excellent assessment of the exercise in the university, stressing that it could not be anything less.