JAMB warns against data privacy violation, disburses N141.3m to CBT centres 

Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Emeritus Professor Is-haq Oloyede, Monday said the board has so far paid the sum of N141.3 million to Computer Based Test (CBT) centers for the services they rendered in the ongoing 2025 UTME/DE registration across the country. 

He said by the time the exercise comes to an end, the board would have disbursed huge amount of money to the CBT centres across the country. 

Oloyede  stated this during an unscheduled visit to some CBT centres in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital.

It was confirmed by one of the directors of a private CBT centre, Adetunji Group of Schools, located in Adeta area of Ilorin who received over N600, 000 for services rendered within four days.

The registrar warned the CBT centres against keeping candidates’ data, especially mobile numbers of applicants.

The acts, by the CBT centres,  he warned, was a violation of candidate’s right to their data privacy which according to him, was against the law. 

He dismissed insinuations that there was an onslaught against the board by the National Assembly, saying the public needs to know more about the activities of the centers to understand its expenditure and commitment to funding of education in Nigeria.

The registrar said the board has blacklisted six centers for various infractions adding that, “a senior university officials is currently being prosecuted for illegal activities and four others under scrutiny.” 

As at the close of the monitoring Monday, he said a total of 420, 674 candidates have been registered out of which 124, 625 registered for trial testing, a figure which he said is expected to increase sharply by the close of the day.