The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have announced that
the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will hold in May
2017.
This was made known by the JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, through
the Board’s Twitter handle @jambhq
According to him, actual dates will be announced soon. He also advised
candidates to beware of false dates and fraudsters.
“2017 UTME is scheduled to hold in May 2017. Actual dates will be
announced soon. Beware of false dates and fraudsters,” he said.
Meanwhile, JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has explained why an
unusual delay has preceded the sales of application forms.
He said the ongoing switch-over in the major thrust of the sale of form
which is the scratch card to direct payment into the Treasury Single Account
(TSA) was responsible for the delay.
Oloyede said: “We are changing the major trust of the sale which is the
scratch card. Candidates used to buy scratch cards to access the forms online
and that has been abused thoroughly.
“What we want to do is for students to pay directly to government
coffers and we are working out the process of doing so to avoid the type of
abuse that it has been subjected to. So, we want to sell directly and to make
sure that candidates pay into TSA account.”
*Daily Post*
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