February 2018
Candidates who participated in the 2018 JAMB Mock exam are eager to know the result of the just concluded exam and have been asking questions on when they should expect it.

At the moment, we have not received any confirmation concerning the release of the mock result.
JAMB Mock Exam Results 2018 - Any Message Yet?
JAMB may either send the results to candidates that participated via emails or text messages. An official link for candidates to check it via JAMB portal may also be provided.
Based on previous experience, the results are usually released within 48 hours or so. However, we do not know for sure how long it may take for the 2018 Mock results to be released.
Therefore, we will use this thread to monitor when the results for the JAMB Mock Exams will be released.
Please feel free to let us know if you have received any message from JAMB concerning the release of results for the 2018 Mock Exam.


Out of the 258,000 candidates that applied for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME mock examination, only 211,000 candidates took part in the test on Monday, the JAMB registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, has said.
This was due to insufficient space to accommodate interested students in some of the computer-based centres across the nation.
However, the registrar, while inspecting the Blue Ocean Technology centre and Veritas University centre in Abuja on Monday told journalists that he was satisfied with the level of preparedness he noticed.
Mr. Oloyede said the board is aware of the challenges of lack of even spread of facilities in some states. He urged indigenes from such areas to establish a computer-based centre there.
“It is not that we cannot have more candidates but the spread that the candidates chose (is a challenge). For instance, if you are taking candidates that chose Pankshin as their centre, the examination will last for three days so we chose the one on ground. But there are enough spaces in Ibadan, Lagos, Oyo but you can’t move these candidates from Plateau State to these parts that have vacancies. So, its better to pick what a town can accommodate, so we have apologised to the students,” he said.
Mr. Oloyede said out of the 602 centres being used, only six of the centres had challenges.
“Although we are inspecting and monitoring the examination across the country, we had issues in Obafemi Awolowo University. Our exams have not been able to start and we have given the authorities one hour. If the problem is not solved, we will relocate our candidates elsewhere. We have an issue with a centre in Plateau state. In Taraba state, there was a crash of laptops. In Olabisi Onabanjo University and Nnamdi Azikwe University, the problem of the digital centres have been solved,” he said.
He added, “We have made provision for ‘option B’, that is why the candidates have their emails. They will receive an email changing them to another centre. Last year, it happened in LAUTECH and since it has happened there, the institution cannot be allowed to take our examination as long as I am the registrar of JAMB. Let them close their gate and we go elsewhere. Once we are unable to conduct examination in a particular centre, we go elsewhere, If you want to kill your institution because you have internal problem, go ahead and kill it.”
The registrar said there would not be ‘mop-up’ for candidates noting that ”its either the candidates write the exam or do not do the exam”.
“The board has put certain things in place to ensure effective monitoring of every candidate and also ensure good network for the candidates. Network in this term does not mean MTN, Airtel or Glo. It simply means the Local Area Network which is the cable within the centre. We do not conduct our examination on the internet so when we say there is a network problem, it is a cabling problem within the centre and not outside the hall,” he said.

The registrar said the board will ”only pay for sucessful candidates” noting that if any of the centres’ system logs any candidates out, ”the centres money will also be logged out.”
He also spoke about other challenges observed in the centres.
“For the private CBT centres, we have discovered they cut corners so that we can pay them. For instance, if we have 250,000 candidates writing the exam and 40,000 are logged out, we pay for the 40,000 that was logged out but this year, we will only pay for candidates who are absent because we must pay when candidates are absent, that is not your fault.”
Similarly, Mr. Oloyede urged the parents to keep away from the examination centres.
“We are not in the kindargaten, we are preparing these young minds for university education. The parents come too much around because they want their wards to pass at all cost, it is not helpful,” he said.
One of the centres where students were not able to write the examination was at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU).
The OAU spokesperson, Abiodun Olarewaju, told PREMIUM TIMES on Monday evening that the institution is trying to resolve the issue that led to the candidates not being able to write their examination.
“Everybody is trying come to the negotiating table to find a common ground and resolve the issue . The candidates could not finish but we are trying to resolve it. We are still at the meeting now,” Mr. Olanrewaju explained.
Meanwhile Adekunle Imran, a parent of one of the candidates, said the mock examination is meant to prepare the students for what they should expect in the main examination.

However, Mr. Imran said the board needs to create methods to assist the students in the preparation process.
“In Nigeria, we have good policies but our problem is implementation. This set of students you see on queue were supposed to have finished their exam now because they are the second batch who were to start their examination by 9.00 a.m. but this is 10:25 a.m. and they are just on the queue now for the first capturing of their identity. I understand that the first set of candidates are not done and students were told to be at the centre an hour before the examination,” Mr. Imran said.
He urged the board to adopt a system whereby the students can be captured while seated, writing the examination.
The board has fixed March 9 to 17 for the 2018 UTME.
ABUJA- AHEAD of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME,billed to commence on March 6,the Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB,Prof. Ishaq Oloyede,has expressed hope that the exercise would experience significant improvement over previous ones.
His confidence in the forthcoming examination was sequel to the successful conduct of a mock examination,Monday,across the country which he supervised along some officials of the board in Abuja and environs.
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) 
While monitoring the conduct of the mock examination which had a total of 211,000 participants out of the 257,000 that had shown interest to write, he expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the candidates and CBT centres visited.
Oloyede, who introduced mock UTME in 2017 following his appointed to take charge of the tertiary institutions’ examinations body,said it was aimed at allowing prospective candidates acquaint themselves with the Computer Based Test,CBT exercise and douse possible fear and anxiety in them during the proper exercises.
Oloyede said he was also impressed with the reports from state offices, which according to him,showed that the exercise was going on smoothly as planned.
To this end, he encouraged them and privately owned CBT centres to put finishing touches to their preparation for the 2018 UTME exercise.
Meanwhile, the JAMB Registrar, has insisted that items like wristwatches, pens, calculators, pencils, devices that could store data, transmit or receive signal, order than HB pencil, would not be accepted at the CBT centres during the UTME scheduled to begin March 9.
In addition to that, Prof. Oloyede maintained that electronic devices, mobile phones, spy reading glasses would be subjected to properly scrutiny  before being allowed into the exam hall.
 “Similarly, books or any other reading/writing material, cameras, recorders, microphones, ear piece, ink/pen readers, smart lenses, smart rings/jewellery, smart buttons and Bluetooth devices would not be allowed into the centres,”he said.
He explained that prohibition of the above listed materials and other rules were applicable to, not only the candidates but to the supervisors and examiners.
In spite of the great efforts by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to tackle examination malpractice, students and syndicates are finding new ways to bend the rule of the game to the frustration of the body and well-meaning Nigerians. Head, Education Desk, Iyabo Lawal, writes
Like a clairvoyant, he spoke with conviction. His body language was unambiguous. He punctuated each sentence he made with equanimity and clarity. All he said was good news for conscientious students. His pseudo-clairvoyant message was bad news from those who benefit from examination malpractice in the country.
This is what he said in 2015: “I foresee a JAMB that will conduct the Computer Based Test (CBT) examination within five days. I see a JAMB that will conduct a 100 per cent hitch-free and malpractice-free examination. I see a world-acclaimed JAMB in few years to come.”
The statement was made by the erstwhile Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde.
Today, he will mostly be shocked that the CBT, after all, is not as impregnable as he had envisioned. As learnt, hackers are having a go at JAMB computer network to sniff out exam questions and sell them – with prepared answers – in the black market to parents, students, and any other interested party.
If JAMB can go hi-tech, why can’t the cheats?
However, the former JAMB boss could not be faulted entirely for seeing a tasteful vision that is experiencing a distasteful reality. He had fought tooth and nail to exorcise the demon of exam malpractices in the country. At a point, Ojerinde had to beg the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to help the examination body to apprehend the syndicate, not just the students, involved in a nation-wide racket of examination malpractices.
The-then EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde’s response to that request was telling: “We will always intervene not only during examinations; we will also like to beam a searchlight on personnel of JAMB to know how the questions get to the candidates.”
The CBT was introduced by JAMB in 2012 and was first tried in 2013. According to the exam body, it was introduced to prevent all manners of exam malpractices and fraudulent acts on the part of students and other stakeholders.
Ojerinde had related a story of how a man – impersonating a candidate – was caught writing an exam for his pregnant wife. He also narrated how a lady inserted a mobile phone in her private parts.
There are other details of exam malpractices that are ignominious in every detail. It is true that the CBT and every other means devised to reduce level of malpractice. The reality is that exam cheats – the students and the merchants selling leaked exam questions and answers – are keeping vigils to unravel the seemingly foolproof CBT system of JAMB.
Perhaps, Ojerinde knew that too when he said, “Those engaging in examination malpractices will stop at nothing in achieving their aims.”
If Ojerinde had expressed hope to the point of clairvoyance, his successor, the current JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, may not be as optimistic – for him, unease lies the head that wears the crown.
As more and more cheats – parents, JAMB personnel, mercenaries, and students – were overreaching the firewall of the CBT network, Oloyede soon realised the computer-based exam mode needed a sister. Acting like a quick-thinking institution allergic to malpractice, JAMB decided to install CCTVs at examination centres.
Has there been successes so far?
In October last year, what Oloyede said was instructive.
“It is in line with this kind of development that the board has concluded arrangements to create centres for examination malpractice devices for future examinations. There will be no compromise whatsoever. Without the deployment of the CCTV, one will just be making a mockery of the computer-based test.
“This device has ensured that even if a cheating candidate was not caught during the examination, such candidate will be caught after the examination. We will continue to ensure that with education, one can achieve everything and without it, one can achieve nothing. It, therefore, goes to tell that each one of us must strive to achieve what is good, giving the significance of life and living,” he had said.
The JAMB boss was, however, careful not to sound like his predecessor when he added, “I have statistics, which shows that what we have in Nigeria as far as examination malpractice is concerned, is a child’s play compared with what is happening in other climes. Today with the aid of technological devices for cheating such as smart watches and others the phenomenon is becoming alarming. But in our own case, as these children are getting wiser, we too are getting ahead of them,’’ he said.
JAMB’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin who recounted the activities of syndicates and efforts made so far by the examination body to bring perpetrators to book said over 20 people are presently in detention across the country for undermining JAMB registration process.
Benjamin said the body is trying hard to stop this scourge of exam malpractice because “until we get things right from there, it will be absolutely very difficult for any examination body to record success with minimal malpractice.”
He said, “Malpractice starts with registration, most of the time, examination bodies get it wrong; they think that malpractice is only at the point of writing examination but we have come to discover that malpractice starts from the registration point. It could manifest in form of multiple registration and all forms of impersonation, that is why we introduced all those new processes, if you look at our processes, you would see that we dissipated a lot of energy on registration because we believe that once we get this right, we would have gone almost 90 percent in eliminating incidences of exam malpractice, the remaining 10 percent would just be at the point of examination.”
“One thing we have discovered is that the longer our registration, the more vulnerable we are. Last year, we did one month and we registered 1.7m candidates, this year we did two months, and the first month, we could not register 10 percent of the candidates, all the 90 percent are being registered in the second month. What we discovered is that this syndicate through the media mount pressure on us to extend the registration period to two months because they thought that their investment cannot me recouped in one month. It took them three weeks to mount their equipment, get necessary expertise and break into our radial, so after doing all these, one month will be inadequate to recoup their investment.”
The JAMB spokesman added, “Infact, one of the syndicates said they brought in equipment from china, mounted it and penetrated into our system through a Computer Based Centre (CBT), got our IP address and was collecting N50, 000 per week from different centres that were registering.
Benjamin said these syndicates, who connived with CBT operators to perpetrate the crime go to a CBT centre, connected their wire to JAMB’s router at the centre into their dish and then broadcast on the internet for prospective candidates to patronise them. So, cybecafe operators were registering with them while they in turn register candidates.
“With our system, it is impossible for you to do multiple registration, what these syndicates do is that they would break in to our server, register about 100 people who are not our candidates, with the aim of going into the hall to either steal our questions and sell to parents and candidates, unknown to them that the questions are not the same for all batches. “
We monitor our registration for 24 hours, it got to a point we just discovered that people were registering around 1am-4am, and we knew something was wrong from there. Who would go to a CBT centre to register at 1am? So we started investigating and we discovered that some schools, because each has a router with us, in certain locations like Abuja, the router will be doing registration in Sokoto. A school in Lagos, the router will be doing registration in Kano, so we knew something was wrong. So we moved in, called some of the schools in Abuja to ask why it was doing registration in Lagos or Sokoto and they all denied, instantly we suspected foul play.
“For the syndicates to achieve their aim, we discovered that they connived with some of our CBT centres to get our IP address. Owners of some of these centres have been arrested.
“Some of the candidates registered by these syndicates would no doubt have issues during the examination because they were not properly registered; some of them are not even on our data bank. I don’t know why a candidate would want to go and do his registration at 1am or 4am; candidates who want to go to higher institutions must follow instructions to the latter. If a regulatory body says this is how its process should be done, why not follow the process instead of going through the back door and putting yourself in trouble? Instead of paying JAMB’s approved fee of N5, 500 for registration, these set of candidates go to the syndicates and they pay more, sometimes as high as N300, 000.
Oloyede and JAMB are not alone in this messy game – even WAEC and NECO have yet to get a hang of the sophisticated exam frauds that edevil their operations.

Those who successfully cheated in exams graduate into the larger society with the mentality that dishonesty is a quicker way to success and fame – and regrettably so, many Nigerians considered as being prominent have been fingered to have risen to the top based on questionable exam results and certificates. In a nation where exam malpractices thrive, many of its citizens will end up being insensible, dishonest, ignorant, narrow-minded, myopic, deceptive, and disingenuous. Examination malpractice puts youths and professionals in a situation that leads to a future of social-political and economic bankruptcy.
Sometimes when caught, students have had to repeat classes, retake the exams, dismissed from school; thus wasting money, time and efforts that could have been put to productive use. The importance of examination for diagnosis, placement, classification and quality control in schools has been eroded..
Even though the Federal Government promulgated laws, which stipulated a 21-year-jail term for anyone found guilty of examination malpractice, the act has become the norm rather than the exception. In 2006 the Federal Ministry of Education blacklisted and de-recognised 324 secondary schools as centres for conducting public examinations from 2007 to 2010.
Examination malpractice is an indication of declining education quality in the country and all hands must be on deck to nip this cankerworm in the bud.

It is no more news that the much awaited JAMB Mock exam for 2018 UTME candidates will finally hold on Monday February 26th, 2018.
If you are among those that will be writing the exam, please do take it serious as you may likely pick one or two things that will help you in the main examination.

Also do not forget that other candidates that won't be partcipating in the exam will depend on you for updates and relevant information concerning the conduct of the mock exam. So please take note of everything that is happening in your centre and keep us updated.

While in the hall, please take note of everything but most importantly; 
1. Check if there are CCTV Cameras 
2. Check if the Computer systems are special in anyway 
3. When you login to take an exam, check how the CBT environment is laid out. 
4. Where is the time Located, Where are your Subject Navigation Located, Where are the Question Numbers Located, e.t.c. 
5. Check if you can use both Keyboard and Mouse. 
6. Check the time given for the exam 
7. Check the number of questions given. 
8. Finally check if there is any thing new with the whole process.
Ensure you arrive your centre at least 30 minutes before your scheduled time. 
If you are going to the exam with any of the banned items, ensure you keep them some where safe outside the hall to avoid being punished or disqualified.

2018 UTME: Protesters Took To The Street To Demand Postponement of Exam Date
A number of protesters took to the street in Lagos to demand that the date for the conduct of the 2018 UTME be postponed.
The protesters were seen carrying placards with various inscriptions like; “Admissions are yet to close, why conducting another UTME now?”; “JAMB isn’t for revenue generation, stop milking our parents,” “2017 UTME held in May, why March in 2018?”, “2018 admissions not transparent”.

Many argued the rationality of fixing another JAMB exam in March when the 2017/2018 Admission exercise had barely ended.
They said many of them, who had hoped to be admitted by various institutions during the 2017/2018 academic calendar year, just found out this week that they were not admitted and that less than one month cannot be enough to prepare for another examination.
Commenting on this, the National President of the Association of Tutorial School Operators (ATSO), Dotun Sodunke, said , the new head of JAMB needs to be called to order. He should not be carried away by the euphoria of revenue generation. The future of this country depends on these children.
“JAMB is sure that if you conduct the exam early, many candidates would fail, and they would come back to register again next year. This is so because their children don’t school here." He said.
Responding to this, the JAMB spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said that was no basis for postponement of the exam; stating that it is not candidates are not the ones protesting against the UTME date but tutorial centres operators.
According to him, the tutorial centre operators are doing this because they want to keep the candidates at their centres till May so that they can get more money from them.
He mentioned that the Government wants all academic calendar to begin by August and that is why all admissions will be concluded by August this year which explains why the UTME date has to be fixed in March.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said that the examination mode for blind candidates for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was likely to be conducted by dictation, as was done in 2017.
Fabian Benjamin, Head, Media and Information, JAMB, gave the hint in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.
Mr. Benjamin was speaking against the backdrop of calls by some blind candidates in Lagos, seeking to know if they would be using the Braille Note Apex for the fast approaching all Computer-Based Test (CBT), scheduled for between March 9 and March 17.
According to him, all blind candidates will be writing the 2018 UTME through the dictation mode, as was the case in 2017.
“Yes, the candidates would be taking this year’s examination through the dictation mode.
“This dictation would be carried out by the ‘Equal Opportunity Group’, under the supervision of Prof. Peter Okebukola, a former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission.
“The board is mindful of needs of the Nigerian child and, therefore, will stop at nothing in ensuring that everyone is carried along and given equal opportunity to succeed.’’
Meanwhile, Mr. Benjamin has urged all candidates writing the UTME Mock examination slated for February 26, to start printing their examination details, as notices had already been sent to their respective e-mail addresses.
According to him, the board has concluded all arrangements for a hitch-free conduct of the examination nationwide.
He said that candidates were being advised to adhere strictly to the directives issued to them, in connection with the conduct of the examination.
Mr. Benjamin urged candidates to ensure they arrived at their respective examination centres early.
He further said that lateness, use of mobile phones, wrist watches, blue-tooth devices, smart lenses, microphones, ear pieces, smart rings, ink pen readers and other electronic devices, would not be allowed.
About 245,753 of the 1,652,795 candidates, who registered for the examination, are expected to write the mock test.

..As it prohibits pen, 15 other items from exam halls
By Joseph Erunke
ABUJA-AHEAD of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME,slated to hold between March 6 and 17,the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB,has said 16 items including eye glasses and wrist watches won’t be allowed by candidates inside examination halls.
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) fielding questions from newsmen
The board said eye grasses worn by students on medical grounds would be thoroughly scrutinized by invigilators to ensure they were for ulterior motives.
This was disclosed by the Secretary of JAMB UTME Monitoring Groups, Ngozi Egbuna, in a memo to some civil society groups which will participate in the monitoring of the examination.

The prohibited items,according to the memo, are wrist watches, pen/biro, mobile phones or similar electronic devices, spy reading glasses which should be scrutinised, calculators or similar electronic devices, USB, CD, hard disks and/or similar storage devices.
Others are books or any reading/writing material, cameras, recorders, microphones, ear pieces, ink/pen readers, smart lenses, smart rings/jewellery, smart buttons and Bluetooth devices.

The memo read thus: “Kindly note that examination officials are allowed to scrutinise eye glasses or similar devices and where convinced that such item may compromise the sanctity of the examination, the examination official should confiscate it.
“Where examination official (board staff or ad hoc staff) or any authorised person is found with any of these prohibited items in the examination hall, such compromising action would be treated as a deliberate act of examination sabotage and necessary sanction will be applied.”
The groups were inaugurated by JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, last year to assist in monitoring the UTME.
They were said to have assisted in giving information from the field and transmitted several challenges, as applicable, to JAMB officials,a development that assisted in curbing the high rate of examination malpractices in 2017.
Official Link to Print JAMB Mock Exam Slip for 2018
JAMB has now released a NEW official link and procedures to print the 2018 JAMB Mock Exam Slip for the exam holding on 26th February, 2018.
This procedure is especially useful for those who may have provided wrong emails during registration, or those who didn't receive the email sent by JAMB, due to network issues.

Please note that it is best you follow the procedures below using a computer system, to enable you print it immediately.
The smart phone users can actually save the slip on their mobile phone to print later.
Please don't user Opera-Mini for this to be on the safe side. You can use Chrome or Firefox.

Procedures to Print 2018 JAMB Mock Exam Slip

1. Visit the official JAMB Mock Exam Printing Portal by clicking here
2. In the form space provided, enter your JAMB registration number or Email used to register
3. Click "Print Examination Slip" for the Pop-Up to Print.
For those who did not indicate to write the Mock Exam, you will most likely not be given access to print any slip.

Have You Received Your JAMB 2018 Mock Exam Slip?
We believe by now a good number of candidates that will be participating in the mock exam must have received a notification from JAMB concerning their venue and Time.
If you have received yours, that’s good. By now you should be warming up for the Mock exam which comes up on Monday, February 26th, 2018.

If you have not received yours and you’re sure you selected mock exam during registration, keep checking your mail for such notification.
It is possible that the notifications are being sent in batches and that means it may take between now to at least Saturday before all qualified candidates for the mock exam will get theirs.
Always make sure you check both the inbox and SPAM folder of your email for the notification.
Remember the mock examination is only to help you get familiar with the whole JAMB CBT exam set up. And for the fact that you really need all the preparation you can get now, we won’t fail to equally remind you all, whether you are participating in the mock exam or not to download the JAMB CBT Mobile App for 2018 UTME and/or 2018 JAMB CBT Computer Software from Myschool if you have not done so. It will definitely help you a whole lot.

We're pleased to inform you that the JAMB Mock Examination Slips for 2018 are now being distributed via Email by JAMB. Those who registered for 2018 UTME and selected to write the Mock Exam, using their correct email addresses should get it delivered to them in the coming days.
Remember that JAMB had slated the Mock Exam to hold on Monday, 26th Feb, 2018, while the Main UTME is expected to begin as from 9th March, 2018.

Those who indicated interest to write the Mock, and are yet to receive any email from JAMB can try login into their JAMB profile online to see if access has been granted to them to print the slip. If you have been granted access, please come back here and share with others, so you can guide us.
Feel free to share your Mock Exam Slip as a comment under this post. You can also attach a screenshot if you wish.

Considering that the JAMB Mock exam is just few days from now, we expect JAMB to send details concerning candidates’ Venue and time any moment from now.
JAMB had earlier announced that candidates will be sent their mock exam schedule via email and text messages.

We equally expect JAMB to provide means for candidates who are unable to get email and sms notifications to print their mock slips online as well.
Notwithstanding, we advise all those who indicated interest to write the Mock Exam to please check their emails regularly from now and look pout for such notification from JAMB in that regard. Please be sure to check both your inbox and SPAM folder.
If you find anything, please don't hesitate to come back here and let us know your findings, so as to alert other candidates.
By now, we're sure you all know that the JAMB Mock Exam for the 2017 UTME has been confirmed to hold on February 26th, 2018.
Many UTME candidates seem not to know if they are qualified to partake in the mock examination or not.

Let’s quickly clear the confusion so you know if you are qualified or not.
In as much as a lot of you would like to write the Mock Exam, not everyone is entitled to write it.
If you did not select to write the exam during registration, you are simply not qualified to partake in the mock examination.

Also, if you are unable to print you mock exam slip or get a notification from JAMB concerning the mock exam schedule; it equally means you are not qualified for the mock exam.
Whatever be the case, you do not have anything to worry about. You can have same mock exam experience by downloading and practicing with the JAMB CBT Mobile AppJAMB CBT Software for Computer Systems or by using the Free Online JAMB CBT Exam Platform
 I believe this has helped to clear the confusion. However, if you have any more questions concerning the mock exam, please post it as a comment so the community can help you.

ABUJA—JOINT Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, yesterday said the much anticipated conduct of the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, would now hold on February 26, saying it could no longer postpone the conduct of the examination.

This came as it lamented ongoing nationwide strike by non-academic staff in the nation’s universities, blaming the industrial action for the delay in the examination, as the body was forced to continuously shift it in anticipation that the industrial action would be called off.
JAMB, in a statement by its Head of Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, lamented that being a critical partner, the Non-Academic Staff Union of  Educational and Related Associations, NASU’s absence in the scheduled examination would be greatly felt if the issue that led to the industrial dispute was not resolved for members to participate in the exercise.
According to him: “The unions are our critical stakeholders and their absence would be felt if the issue is not resolved before Monday, February 26. The Board could not have said it would go on with the examination with or without their suspending the strike, rather the Board found itself in a situation that it has to go on with conduct of the examination. We are still hopeful that an amicable resolution of the crisis would be reached before the date of the examination.
‘We had prayed and worked tirelessly to ensure that the strike was called off hence our continued shifting of the dates for the examination.“

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said the much anticipated conduct of the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would now hold on February 26.
The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
According to him, a total of 245,753 of the 1,652,795 candidates that registered for this year’s  UTME are expected to write the test.
“We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26.
“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of the non-academic  unions of federal universities nationwide.
“Candidates will soon be informed on when to print notifications for the examination and in addition, notifications will be sent through e-mails and text messages on the schedules of their examination,” Dr. Benjamin said.
He explained that the examination was expected to be hitch free because the board had successfully reduced incidences of malfunctioning of computers by electronically integrating the systems to see their functionality and effectiveness through link tests.
“What this means is that, at the end if the exercise, whatever system that is not seen will not be used for the mock examination.
“The 2018 exercise sold a total of 1, 966,918 candidate generating profiles.
“In previous examinations this number of candidates would have paid for the forms but through our efficient and effective system of ensuring that candidates do not waste resources, we decided to introduce the profile generating regime.
“By this method, candidates will first have to   generate personal  profiles before proceeding to obtain pins, in between which they are open to deciding whether to go ahead to pay for the registration documents or otherwise,” Mr. Benjamin explained.
The main UTME is expected to hold nationwide from March.
The last has not been heard of missing funds in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB.
Days after a staff in Makurdi office claimed that a snake sneaked into the accounts office and swallowed N36 million cash,some other officers have given reasons why they cannot produce funds in their care.
On Thursday, the Yobe State Coordinator of JAMB, Sanusi Atose, blamed the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria's North-East for his inability to account for N613,000 belonging to the board.
JAMB had summoned Atose to Abuja to appear before an administrative panel led by Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede to explain the disappearance of the cash after he received registration scratch cards of that amount.
But in his explanation, the official, claimed an alleged Boko Haram attack in Yobe State left him unable to account for the money.
Premium Times quoted him as claiming that tellers, receipts and invoices were destroyed in the attack, which he said left him with no documentation for the transaction.
Oloyede, however, dismissed his claim as another disingenuous cover-up for fraud.
"Kindly go and pay government money within one week, else you will be in trouble," the registrar told Mr. Atose.
Also appearing before the panel, Daniel Agbor, who is the Kogi State coordinator of JAMB, said he spent N7 million, which his office could not account for, on assisting other workers in his office, who he said were ravaged by poverty.
He also claimed that some of the cards sent to the state were stolen by unknown persons.
"The state of the state offices is such that we are in poverty and money is there with us," the coordinator told the panel.
"You need the grace of God in the state offices not to steal money because money is tempting. We borrowed the money and I am not the only one, I will provide the list of everyone involved in the fraud.
"To err is human, to forgive is divine, please don't take me to the police, please be lenient with me, sir," he pleaded.
"If you hear that I have given up in the police cell, will you say 'I am sorry'? My wife just gave birth to our first issue.
"Most of us are on loan, my salary is N175, 000, but when they deduct my loans, my salary remains N90,000, which is not enough for me so I borrowed from the government purse".
Agbor told the panel that he paid N265,000 into an account allegedly on the instruction of the former registrar of the board.
"I was informed of missing scratch cards, but security personnel, the police and civil defence, invaded the office, retrieved the cards and they paid some money back.
"I informed the former registrar and he directed me to send the money to an account, which I did. I later learnt the money was transferred to the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence. So that one was not calculated at all," he said.
But the panel told him that he was in trouble.
"I will give you one week from today as we speak," Oloyede told the coordinator.
"I want to see you pay everything in your custody, else I will hand you over to the police.
"Deduct the N265, 000 from the N7 million, then give us the account in which the former registrar gave you to send the money to."