The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has pleaded with the Nigerian Army to help secure its computer based tests (CBT) centres for the unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME).

According to a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this at a meeting with the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Tukur Buratai in Abuja.

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Oloyede solicited for the intervention and cooperation of the Nigerian Army in the coming examination.

“We are here to thank you for the wonderful job you have been doing, all Nigerians are happy with you for the wonderful feat you have recorded in the discharge of your duties, and your quest for an indivisible and united country,” he said.

“This need became imperative to seek for security intervention from the Army, particularly in turbulent areas”, he added.

The Registrar said over 678 centres across the country would be put to use with an estimated 1.5million candidates for the examination.