Amid growing concerns over the safety and welfare of candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Citizenship Civic Awareness Centre (CCAC) has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to urgently review its examination logistics and policies to prevent needless loss of lives.
In a statement signed by Adeola Soetan and shared on Facebook, the CCAC lamented that no examination should be worth the life of any Nigerian youth, noting that the current system exposes candidates, many of them teenagers, to undue risks including kidnapping, motor accidents, and excessive stress.
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