The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has called for media support to ensure transparency in the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
Dr Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media, made the call on Thursday during a courtesy call on Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Benjamin said the Computer-based Test (CBT) examination was scheduled to begin nationwide on March 9 and would last till March 19.
He said that the Media was doing a wonderful job in terms of dissemination of news, especially in realisation of the Federal Government’s change agenda.
Benjamin said “We are starting our UTME tomorrow and in our policy of inclusiveness, we want to carry people along, because we want to run a transparent system and we have nothing to hide.
“We invite all Nigerians, particularly the media to participate and see what we are doing; examination is all about trust, so we are opening the platform for everybody to see what we do.
“We believe that if people know what is done and how to go about it, they will have confidence in the outcome, particularly in conduct of public examination.’’
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