No extension of the March 26 UTME registration deadline, JAMB has insisted.
Glamtush reports that the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has ruled out the extension of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) beyond March 26.
This online platfromgathered that Oloyede made the declaration while ascertaining the level of preparedness and facilities at the Kano zonal office of the board.
According to the JAMB boss, the board has so far registered over 1.4 million candidates, expressing satisfaction with the smooth conduct of the exercise in the North West and other parts of the country he has visited.
He said, “We are not going to extend the period of the registration, because the candidates who will write JAMB are the same candidates who will write West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASCE) and National Examinations Council (NECO) tests.
“The only space available for JAMB is the period we are utilising for the registration and for the conduct of the examination. Therefore, it will not be possible for us to extend.”
According to him, the board will not succumb to any pressure to extend the UTME registration, pointing out that it had fulfilled all the requirements for a hitch-free registration of prospective candidates.
He warned candidates to register before the closing date adding, “We expect other candidates to came and register within the stipulated time. We are not going to succumb to any pressure after closing it on March 26.”
‘’My mission in Kano is to assess the level of registration. There is no crowd at the centres; the registration is going on smoothly, but the board is worried that towards the end of the exercise, people will be clamouring for an extension,” he stated.
