THE 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.
Meantime, the Senate President, Senator David Mark
and the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde have
harped on the importance of proper education among
the youths, saying it was the panacea to curb youth
restiveness and other social vices in a country.
Mark, Ojerinde harps on Education as antidote to
nation’s woes. The attributed the myriads of problems
like the recent insurgency in the Nort East, the
militancy in the Niger Delta, the kidnapping in the
South East and other crimes such as violence, armed
robbery and drug abuse as a result of illiteracy.
The JAMB Registrar who was speaking at the closing
ceremony of the 2014 Professor Odusola Ojerinde, his
late wife memorial golf tournament in Otukpo, Benue
State 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 was not computer (ICT) literate would
have no business with JAMB conducted examinations
even as he declared, “we are not going to compromise
on that”.
In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the
Senate President, Mr. Paul Mumeh, the JAM Registrar
said 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.
Also speaking Senator Mark said he was committed to
the
development of education, adding, “because I believe
that a well educated citizenry would be an asset to the
nation.
“Besides being the foundation for any development,
education liberates the people and curbs all forms anti
social behaviors.
“Whatever, I can do to support education; I will not
hesitate to do it. I want to bequeath education of our
people especially in my constituency as a legacy. For
me , It is the most important investment.’
The Senate President according to the statement
explained that he promotes sports as the needed
companion to education “because a combination of
both will enhance peaceful coexistence, eradicates
crimes, promotes unity and development.”
