The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has registered 420,674 candidates for the 2025/2026 JAMB examinations as at Monday afternoon.
The JAMB registrar, Emeritus Professor Is-haq Oloyede disclosed this yesterday after his visits to some Computer Based Test Centres (CBT) in Ilorin, Kwara State.
Oloyede disclosed that 124,632 candidates have entered for the mock JAMB examinations, putting the number of trial testing candidates at 331 so far.
He said that his Board has a target of two million candidates for the examination.
The JAMB registrar, who put the number of underaged registrants
(candidates who would be less than 16 years by October) at 4,997 as at Monday afternoon, lambasted those he described as selfish parents that crave to make their children educational pursuit as their victory medal.
“You can see how we’re deceiving ourselves in this country. Before the maximum figure would be about 300. In a situation when we’ve just started in five days and we have a total number 4,997 underaged registrants. By the end of today, they will be more than 5000,” he said.
On the reasons for allowing underaged candidates in the examination, Oloyede said that all underaged candidates are made to sign indemnity form or undertaking to meet up with academic ability or be sanctioned if such fails to meet up with claimed exceptional intelligence.
He, however, said that six individuals engaged by jamb from various institutions in the country have been blacklisted for life from participating in jamb conducted examinations.
He said that the people were caught in alleged exam malpractice, adding that we have their particulars. He also said one senior university official is being prosecuted for exam related crime, adding that others are under investigation.
