Cross-checking 10 fingers of 1.8 million candidates is not a joke

The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has attributed the delay in releasing the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to the bio-metric tests being carried out on all the 1.8 million candidates that sat the exam.
According to him, the delay is not due to any server problem as being speculated.
He noted that the bio-metric exercise was a strenuous one but the board was ready to undertake it to checkmate rot in the system.
He said, “We are cross-checking everything, including fingers. If you know that you have about 1.8 candidates multiplied by ten that is the finger we are talking about.
“If you are very close to National Identity Card Management Commission (NIMC¬), ask them what it takes to analyse finger prints in terms of period.
“We are combining 1.8 million ten fingers with one another to be sure that we identify people who combine fingers and so on. That is where we are now.
“We have done all other and now we have about six states to go. As I speak with you I am at a retreat with those who are doing it. We have about six states to go. We have done 31 states and six states are still not completed now.”