The Registrar, Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board , Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said 1.7 million
candidates are expected to sit for 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination in April.
Examination in April.
He said this on
Tuesday in Abeokuta at the sideline of the examination body’s Information and
Communication Technology retreat involving civil society groups, students and
other major stakeholders.
The two -day retreat
held within the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library complex in Abeokuta.
He said the JAMB
also aimed at increasing the capacities of its Computer Based Test Centres in
order to make the April examination seamless.
He said , “We are
expecting 1.7 million candidates to sit for the UTME this year and we want to
make sure we satisfy these candidates within a week or thereabout.
“That is why we are
increasing the capacity of the Computer-Based Test Centres to be able to
examine more candidates within a given date.”
Oloyede who said the
body would not promise a hitch-free examination, noted that there were changes
and innovations ongoing which would send some illegal operators who had
defrauded candidates in the past, out of business.
The JAMB boss,
however, said the examination body would not be deterred in its mission to
serve its candidates better.
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