Nigeria’s Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which oversees college entrance exams, on Monday ordered all computer-based take a look at centres to put in reside CCTV cameras, warning that services with out real-time surveillance will likely be barred from registering candidates or conducting the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Below the coverage — dubbed “no imaginative and prescient, no registration, no UTME” — examinations will likely be monitored reside from JAMB’s headquarters in Abuja, tightening oversight because the physique steps up efforts to curb malpractice. This comes after JAMB withheld the outcomes of 39,834 candidates in 2025 over suspected examination malpractice.
The directive marks the centralisation of Nigeria’s high-stakes college entry exams, as JAMB seeks to revive credibility to a system repeatedly undermined by impersonation, query leaks, and collusion at take a look at centres. By requiring reside surveillance feeds to Abuja and standardising gear throughout centres, the board is transferring to claim tighter management over services that serve over one million candidates every year.
“Erring centres can be sanctioned, together with attainable prosecution,” JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, cautioned. “All present computer-based take a look at (CBT) centres should have migrated to the HIKVision.”
In observe, the order requires all centres to improve or exchange present surveillance gear with HIKVision {hardware} and software program, making a single, standardised monitoring system.
Oloyede stated centres whose registration actions can’t be seen from JAMB’s headquarters in Abuja would forfeit fee and danger having their registrations invalidated, signalling the board’s willingness to impose monetary penalties to implement compliance.
Official figures from JAMB present that the Board has provisionally screened 924 CBT centres forward of the 2026 UTME, with last accreditation nonetheless pending earlier than they’ll host registration and the examination itself.
Whereas JAMB has not but printed a last registration tally, it’s constructing on final 12 months’s turnout—when over two million candidates registered for the 2025 UTME—because it prepares for an additional massive cohort in 2026.
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