JAMB holds UTME in 370 towns, six foreign countries today

Candidates for this year’s edition of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) being conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), will sit for their papers in 370 towns across the federation while foreign candidates will participates in six countries including the United Kingdom, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, among others.

This set of candidates are those billed to write the Paper Pencil Test (PPT). Other categories of candidates writing the newly introduced Computer- Based Test (CBT) mode and the Dual-Based Test (DBT) mode completed theirs yesterday.

According to the Registrar of the examination body, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, there was an increase of about 13.35 per cent in the number of candidates who registered for this year’s exam when compared with those registered last year. “1,735, 720 candidates applied for this year’s UTME as against last year’s 1,503,931 registrations.

This represents an increase of 13.35 per cent,” Ojerinde told journalists recently. He said the total number of candidates sitting for the exam today is about 1.5 million while those writing outside the country are 378 in number.

“A total of about 900,000 registered for the computer based testing mode,” he added. Meanwhile, the body has said all hands are on deck to make sure that everything goes on smoothly as planned and warned candidates to adhere strictly to laid down rules and regulations.

It said anyone caught engaging in any form of malpractices would be made to face the wrath of law. However, Ojerinde noted that apart from biometric data capturing machines to be used to screen candidates, invigilators had also been trained on various other non-mechanical techniques to forestall cheating. He added that men and officers of the Nigerian Police Force, the Security and Civil Defence Corps and other security apparati have been contracted to ensure adequate security.

JAMB also insisted that it had no plan to stop examination from taking place in violence-prone parts of the country as adequate security has been provided but would not hesitate to do so if the situation goes out of hand.

The affected states may include Yobe, Borno, Kano, Bauchi and some parts of Kaduna states. As at last night, investigations by Saturday Mirror revealed that candidates were busy trying to identify their centres having printed out their examination slips.



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