A CBT centre for JAMB's UTME | File photo
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun the accreditation of examination centres for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB Bulletin reports that no fewer than 848 computer-based test (CBT) centres have been slated to be covered in the accreditation.
The exercise began on Monday, December 15, 2025, throughout the country.
Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar met with chief external examiners (CEES), chief technical advisors (CTAS), zonal directors, state coordinators, Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria (CPAN), ZITOs, SITOs, PITOs and other critical stakeholders.
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He encouraged the accreditation team to be focused, diligent, thorough, and be conscious of the consequences of their decisions.
Oloyede urged them to see their assignment as a call to national duty and implored them not to accredit centres that are not good for the board’s examination.
He advised the participants to be security conscious, avoid unnecessary risks, minimal movement and acts that could expose them to dangers even as he assured that maximum security had been put in place for a hitch-free exercise.
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Damilola Bamiro, the board’s IT consultant, pointed out that the accreditation exercise was for only centres that had conducted the mandatory automated test deployed to check system readiness, with results determining eligibility for physical inspection.
He pointed out those areas that the team must focus attention on at each centre during the exercise.
These include the coverage areas of the CCTV system, which must be wired, and must be HIKVision model with the recommended 16 channels, as well as having all the switches connected to the UPS.
Other accreditation requirements include details of verifiable holding rooms/halls and its proximity to the examination hall, identification of 250 functional laptops for new centres, and spacious registration points with CCTV coverage.
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Others are assessbility of network cables for biometric verification and the use of star topology with all switches connected to the master switch to make troubleshooting easier.
Auwal Ahmed Bello, a staff member representing JAMB’s director of IT services (ITS), took participants through the operations of the centre management system (CMS) and other reporting details.
The CEES Vincent Tenebe and the CTAS Bashir Galandanci restated their commitment to the success of the exercise.
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