JAMB warns cafe operators over students’ ‘extortion’

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday warned private cyber cafe operators against extortion of prospective students who want to upload their results on the board’s website.
The JAMB’s Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, gave the caution in an interview with newsmen in Abuja.
JAMB’s spokesman said that the caution became necessary following a number of complaints made to the board by students who fell victims to fraudulent activities of some private café operators.
He said that the candidates complained of high charge by the operators when uploading their WAEC results on JAMB website.
“Not only do they charge them high, they also convince candidates who had already uploaded their results on the site to do same.
“Candidates who have had their results uploaded at the point of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration need not do that again, except for those who registered with awaiting results. Those are the ones allowed to upload now on our website. This upload should not cost more than N100.
“No cyber café should charge more than this amount, however, if candidates can locate any of our CBT centres, it is free to make the upload there,” he said.
This statement followed the recent release of 2018 WAEC results and the announcement by JAMB that leaders of institutions agreed that the first choice admission would be conducted from July to October and the second choice from October to December.