Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde has stated that students and candidates who are not computer literate will not be allowed to write any examination coordinated by the board from 2015.
He stated this while speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Professor Odusola Ojerinde, (his late wife) memorial golf tournament in Otukpo, Benue State.
The registrar said part of efforts to improve education in Nigeria in line with global best practices was the introduction of Computer Based Test, CBT, for all the board’s examinations.
He announced that beginning from 2015, any student or candidate who is not computer (ICT) literate would have no business with JAMB conducted examinations even as he declared, “we are not going to compromise on that”.
Registrar added, “it was for that reason that JAMB embarked on the establishment of Computer Based Centres across the country preparatory for all its examinations”.
He stressed that examination was central to education and must be taken seriously at all levels.