The examination, in which over 1, 735,720 candidates are expected to participate in will hold on Saturday.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the
JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. ‘Dibu Ojerinde, said the board
“may not hesitate to stop the examination if there is any security
problem”.
Responding to a question on security
challenges in the country, Ojerinde said, “Yesterday it was a big
discussion among some agents as well as JAMB. We believe that things
will be all right. You see, we believe that we will surmount the
problem.
“If however, there is any problem, we
may not hesitate to stop the examination in those areas to the extent
that we will now give the children a chance of doing the examination on
CBT only.
“If you miss Paper Pencil Test in a
challenging area that you cannot do the examination, then you will have
to do the next one and that will have to be as from May 18.
“With God, we shall not experience any
problem. We have put everything humanly possible in place, we have put
this before God, and we believe he is not going to sleep on that day.
But if there is a need for postponement in those places, we shall not
hesitate.”
There have been reported cases of
violence occasioned by the activities of the insurgent group, Boko
Haram, in many states in the north in recent time.
Meanwhile, Ojerinde, said the Board had
concluded arrangement for its first Computer Based Test in 70 centres
across the nation from May 18 to June 1.
The CBT, he said, was an alternative to the Dual Based Test and PPT scheduled for Saturday.
Ojerinde said 1,629,102 candidates
applied for the IPT, 15,008 candidates for the Dual Based Test while
91,610 candidates applied for the CBT.
He said the figure for 2013 showed an
increase of 231,789 applicants when compared with last year’s figure of
1,503,931 representing an increase of 13.35 per cent.
Ojerinde said 145 visually-impaired
candidates registered for the examination while 196 inmates registered
for it from Kaduna and Lagos prisons.
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