2026 UTME: JAMB Begins Accreditation For 848 CBT Centres

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the accreditation of examination centres for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

No fewer than 848 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres have been slated to be covered in the accreditation exercise, which began on Monday, December 15, 2025, throughout the country.

According to JAMB Weekly bulletin released on Monday, the Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, stated this during a virtual meeting with Chief External Examiners (CEES), Chief Technical Advisors (CTAS), Zonal Directors, State Coordinators, Computer Professionals Association of Nigeria (CPAN), ZITOs, SITOs, PITOs and other critical stakeholders.

Oloyede charged the accreditation team to be focused, diligent and thorough in the onerous task ahead as well as be conscious of the consequences of their decisions.

He also urged them to see their assignment as a call to national duty and implored them not to accredit centres that are not good for the Board’s examination.

The registrar advised them to be security conscious, avoid unnecessary risks, minimise movement and acts that could expose them to dangers even as he assured that maximum security had been put in place for a hitch-free exercise.

The Board’s IT Consultant, Mr. Damilola Bamiro, said the exercise was only for centres, which had successfully conducted the mandatory automated test deployed to check system readiness, with results determining eligibility for physical inspection.

He pointed out the team will focus on the coverage areas of the CCTV system, which must be wired, and must be HIKVision model with the recommended 16 channels, as well as having all the switches connected to the UPS.

Other accreditation areas will focus on details of verifiable holding rooms/halls and its proximity to the examination hall, identification of 250 functional laptops for new centres, spacious registration points with CCTV coverage, assessbility of network cables for biometric verification, use of star topology with all switches connected to the master switch for seamless troubleshooting.