Ten days to the 2015 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Apitude tests across the nation, thousands of prospective candidates in Rivers State are yet to locate their centres.
Some prospective candidates, who spoke to The Tide at the Port Harcourt office of JAMB, said they were yet to know where to sit for the exams.
They also said that most Cybercafes in the state were also finding it difficult to print out JAMB Centre slips for them.
At the JAMB office and adjoining streets in the D/Line area of Port Harcourt, a legion of candidates clustered around, apparently in a bid to source information on their centres.
Meanwhile, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accredited nine centres for the forth-coming Apitude tests in the state.
The state Controller of JAMB, Mrs Beatrice Eta Nyiam, who stated this in an interview with The Tide in her office in Port Harcourt, listed the centres as the Rivers state University of Science and technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt, University of Port Harcourt, and the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni, near Port Harcourt.
Also accredited are, Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State Polytechnic Bori, Paragon Centre, Herodite centre, Emaride Centre and Adaptive ICT centre, all in Port Harcourt.
Nyiam said that no candidate would be stranded as her office was working hard to ensure that every duly registered student got his or her centre number and name before the exams date.
According to her, the Aptitude tests, which are computerised, would be in phases, and would last for 10 days.
She said that, because of the limited number of JAMB =accredited Cybercafes in the state, her office had been working hard to ensure that local government council chairmen established JAMB computer-based test centres in their respective council, headquarters, to avail candidates at the rural areas access to them for their exams.
In a related development, Mrs Nylam warned that no candidates who registered outside the approved centres will be allowed to sit for the tests.
She warned that no Cybercafes including banks should register candidates without approval from her office.
Hundreds of prospective candidates at the Port Harcourt office of JAMB yesterday, anxious to resolve the crisis surrounding their examination centres