The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has asked the Nigeria Customs Service for operational vehicles, saying it lacks mobility to reach communities and verify candidates.

JAMB Registrar Professor Segun Aina made the request last Friday during a visit to the Comptroller-General of Customs, Dr. Adewale Adeniyi, at the NCS headquarters in Maitama, Abuja.

Aina said adequate vehicles are essential for the Board to reach local government areas, verify candidates and keep examination standards across the country. He said JAMB serves about five million people each year, runs Computer-Based Test centres nationwide and holds examinations in more than 15 countries.

He said the visit was aimed at building stronger ties between the two institutions, and offered the Board’s electronic facilities to the Service.

Adeniyi said mobility matters to JAMB’s nationwide work and that the Service would look at possible assistance, subject to available resources and the applicable framework.

He welcomed the offer of electronic facilities, noting that Customs officers posted across the country sometimes need to gather at designated locations for examinations and other official activities.

Adeniyi also praised JAMB’s use of technology, its improved efficiency and its progress in placing candidates in tertiary institutions, and said he was confident the new Registrar would build on those gains.