UTME may be conducted twice – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) may be conducted a second time for candidates with registration issues.

This was revealed by Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),

According to NAN, Oloyede said this on Wednesday while monitoring the profiling of candidates with 2021 UTME registration challenges in Lagos.

“So far, we have just 17, 758 candidates with challenges that had been profiled, nationwide.”

“At the end of the entire exercise, we may have to conduct another examination for those with genuine cases after the main UTME slated for June 19 to July 3,” he said.

The Jamb registrar stated that most of the candidates with registration issues are largely unserious and are basically the cause of most of their challenges.

“Since I came here this morning and interacted with candidates, I have discovered that most of them are largely unserious and are basically the cause of most of their challenges.” 

“We keep hearing flimsy excuses such as my lesson teacher used his phone to generate the profile code, our tutorial center helped us to register and I was not in town.

“Other reasons advanced are: I used my mother’s NIN to generate my profile code, my mummy did the registration for me, ” he said.

According to the registrar, some candidates were honest enough to say they did not have money to procure the UTME forms.

Meanwhile, the management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had earlier given candidates two weeks’ extension to those who genuinely were unable to complete their registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The earlier deadline for registration was May 29, 2021.

According to a statement by the JAMB’s head of information and protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin noted that candidates have between May 31 and June 15 to complete their registration if they were not able to by last Saturday because of NIN verification issues using a new guideline.