Some secondary school students in Edo State due to enrol for the extermination of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) are protesting against an alleged sudden closure of the JAMB online registration portal before the due date
The students staged the protest in Benin City, the capital of the State on Friday.
In their numbers, they complained that the action of examination body would negatively affect their academic careers.
One of the students said: “This protest will not just stop here. We are going to continue until the day the JAMB will be conducted. We are going to disrupt until we are given extension for us to register.
“Some of us here, our forms are online in the CVT centres and these centres are very few in Benin City”.
Another student claimed that they were asked to go and learn a trade, condemning the comment.
She told Channels Television that since 15 of January, the examination board was already short of scratch cards.
But in a swift reaction to the protest the south-south zonal Coordinator of JAMB, Mrs Priscila Ogunsola, dismissed the claims by the students, insisting that JAMB gave enough time for the registration.
She said that JAMB had informed the students that the registration would close on February 5 and explained that some Cyber Cafe owners had thought that they could get access code to register candidates even after the deadline.
“They were hoping to still get that opportunity which never came this time around. That is just the problem,” she said.