During an unannounced inspection tour of 2021 UTME registration centres over the weekend, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, uncovered how a secondary school (Baptist Girls Academy) collected ₦8,000 per student for UTME registration instead of the official total package of ₦4,700 (₦3,500 e-PIN, ₦500 reading text, and ₦700 CBT registration fee).
How the Extortion Was Uncovered
- When Prof. Oloyede and accompanying journalists asked one of the students how much her school collected from them for the 2021 UTME registration, she disclosed that each student paid ₦8,000.
- When the accompanying school teacher was questioned, he initially claimed the school collected ₦4,700 before attempting to justify the extra ₦3,300 surcharge as logistics/school administrative charges.
- Prof. Oloyede warned secondary school principals against forcing students into bulk school-arranged registrations to extort parents, noting that offending schools have been reported to the Federal and State Ministries of Education.
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