The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has invoked a “No Imaginative and prescient, No Registration, No UTME” clause for Pc-Based mostly Check (CBT) centres that can’t be monitored remotely.
The announcement by the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, throughout a stakeholders’ assembly with Peace Displays, Chief Technical Advisors, Chief Exterior Examiners, and Zonal and State Coordinators.
The directive comes as a part of JAMB’s measures to forestall manipulation of candidate photos and restore the integrity of its registration course of, following challenges noticed through the 2025 UTME registration train.
Prof. Oloyede said that every one centres taking part within the 2026 UTME registration can be monitored reside from JAMB Headquarters in Abuja.
“Any centre whose registration actions can’t be seen from the JAMB Nationwide Headquarters, Abuja, is not going to be paid, and such registration could also be invalidated,” he mentioned.
The Registrar additionally careworn that solely Microsoft or Digitech Reside Cameras can be allowed for capturing the second picture throughout registration to forestall manipulation, as noticed through the 2025 UTME registration train.
“All present CBT Centres should have migrated to the HIKVision CCTV system. The advisable NVR/DVR is HIKVision. The NVRs should have a minimal of 16 channels to cowl all areas of the examination centre. All CCTV techniques should be wired; no wi-fi CCTV Programs. CCTV cameras should cowl all of the examination space, verification space, holding room, walkways, examination corridor, server room, in addition to entrance and exit doorways. Erring centres can be sanctioned, together with doable prosecution,” he added.
He added that JAMB wouldn’t cowl the price of reconfiguring CCTV routers and that centres would bear the price of any reconfiguration earlier than they could possibly be allowed to function.
The Board famous that centres and people beforehand concerned in unwholesome actions throughout previous registration workout routines have been delisted and are being prosecuted.
“The Board is not going to hesitate to sanction any centre or particular person concerned in examination malpractice,” the Registrar warned.
Throughout the 2025 UTME, JAMB uncovered a number of types of misconduct, together with fingerprint and biometric irregularities by CBT centres, resulting in advisable sanctions towards a number of centres and registrants.
The 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration interval begins on January 26 and runs by February 28, 2026 at accredited Pc‑Based mostly Check (CBT) centres nationwide, with e‑PIN merchandising ranging from January 19 to February 26.
The Board reiterated that candidates will not be required to pay any service cost to CBT centres past the charges accepted by JAMB.
