The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has said the extra money being paid by candidates for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), was a charge by operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres to assuage the high cost of diesel.
Oloyede further explained that JAMB only facilitated the process of collecting the payments so that candidates would not be exploited by the operators.
he said these when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education at the National Assembly Complex on Wednesday.
The JAMB registrar also knocked some universities for overshooting the number of students approved to be admitted for a session.
This, he said, eventually causes problems for the students.