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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 .
JAMB’ s Head of Public Relations , Dr
Fabian Benjamin , made this known in
an interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN ) in Abuja.
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 Sept. 30 in
Gambia , Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom,
Ghana , Cote D’ Voir , 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.
“ 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 , Malam
Adamu Adamu , had directed the refund
of post UTME fee , describing the
information as false and could create
confusion in the public domain .
Benjamin urged the public to disregard
the information , saying that institutions
that had charged more than N 2 , 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.
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