Observer Calls For Special ConsiderationFor JAMB Candidates

As candidates write the UTME/JAMB 2013 Examination , an externalexamination observer in Abuja , Mr Moses Ojo , has called the authoritiesto create avenues to solve subject irregularities.

Ojo told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)on Saturday in Abuja that a lot of candidates had issues of subject irregularities which might result in their outright failure.
``While observing activities at the Model Secondary School , Maitama centre, I noticed that some students were given the wrong combination of question papers.

``This could lead to the candidates ’ failure, as a result of no fault of theirs, but from irregularities that had occurred.
``There is the need for JAMB authorities to create copies of each subject to be given to students who experiencesuch irregularities.”
Ojo commended JAMB for its activities as cases of examination malpractice had been curtailed because students were no longer allowed to take anything to the examination venues.
Meanwhile, the Joint Administration and Matriculation Board ( JAMB ) Examination conducted in the FCT was devoid of irregularities while candidates reported promptly, a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)check has showed.

NAN reports that as at 6.30 am when the examinations were expected to commence at various centres, candidates were seen waiting for invigilators inan orderly manner.
However, a NAN correspondent who visited some examinationvenues, observed that the atmosphere was calm and there were reports of examination malpractice.
At the Government Secondary School , Tudun Wada and Government Secondary School , Garki, officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were seen providing security to forestall any disorder or violence.

However, there were cases of late arrival of examination materials at both centres, as students were seen in queue, waiting for the examination to commence.
``They told us that the examinations will start 6:30 this morning and this is 9 am, and yet we have not started,” Ahmed Hussein, a candidate at the GSS Tudun Wada centre, told NAN.
At Government secondary school, Garki, late arrival of examination materials delayed the commencement of examinations.