‘You will all be protected’ – JAMB assures candidates of safety in Borno

by ‘Jola Sotubo

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Students who intend to take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Borno have been assured of their safety by the Zonal Coordinator, Ahmed Ali.

The exam, scheduled to hold today, will see over 1 million intending university and polytechnic students thronging venues around the country to further their academic ambitions.

Alhaji Ali promised the JAMB candidates and their parents in Borno that adequate security measures had been put in place and as such they should not be afraid of coming out to write the exam.

The state has been under attack from terrorists belonging to the dreaded Boko Haram sect, who had no qualms with killing young secondary school students while they slept.

The Nation reports:

He said that prospective candidates and their parents should not harbor any fear, promising that no student would be attacked while writing the examination. Alhaji Ali revealed that inspite of the vulnerable nature of Barma town, a distance of less than 100km from Maiduguri, soldiers were going to surround the exam halls at the College of Education COE, where the exam will be held.

Other centres where the university entrance examinations will be held outside Maiduguri are Biu, Damaturu and Gasua. Ahmed said that the agency was fully prepared for the exercise, especially for those candidates who would be coming from faraway places like Pulka and surrounding villages of Barma Local Government Area.

He, however, expressed regrets that many of the candidates in the area were not willing to be tested through the computer-based tests (CBT system). Meanwhile, candidates in scattered centers in Maiduguri have been moved to the University of Maiduguri to write the CBT, DBT and PPT, but maintained that the zonal office would be fully computerized by 2015.

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