A man who claimed to be a professor, identified as Jide, has been arrested by operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, after he was caught assisting his daughter during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in the Jabi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board confirmed Jide’s arrest on Thursday, which was the first day of the UTME, noting that the man sneaked into a Computer-Based Test centre in Jabi but he was later arrested by operatives and was now in custody.
Mr Jide was arrested at the Brix Academy CBT Centre in Jabi while the UTME was on, trying to assist his daughter during the examination.
The JAMB Head of Information and Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin, has promised that the NSCDC would go on with Jide’s prosecution at the end of its investigations. Dr Benjamin was quick to say that the UTME held on Thursday was successful and impressive.
A total of 1,855,643 candidates would be taking the UTME which would run till Monday