The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has revealed that in the ongoing 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the country, 600,000 candidates has registered. This was stated by Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Relations JAMB, on Monday in an interview with the News Agency.
Based on the fact that some applicants were seeking extension of the UTME registration deadline due to irregularities in the ongoing registration process.
Fabian Benjamin, clearly stated that JAMB will give no room for an extension in the registration period, saying that before deadline every candidate will register.
According to him, it is wrong for any person to also think that there is inadequacy in the number of centres stipulated to register candidates for the UTME.
“We have already registered 600, 000 candidates since sales of form began March 20, how can there be inadequate centres or lack of manpower, when we have more than 400 centres.
“There is no such delay as alleged by some candidates, the issue here is that plenty people are registering for the UTME at the same time.
“The internet is working, if it is not working how then we arrived at the total of 600, 000 that have so far been duly registered.
“Large numbers of applicants seeking to register for UTME go to the Banks allocated for the exercise that is why there seem to be some form of delays and irregularities.
“Before we used three banks and now it is 15 banks because the period is short, but we are not going to extend the registration period, before deadline every candidate will register,” he said.
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