• JAMB schedules exam for April 25, mock to hold April 5
A total of 2,030,627 candidates have registered for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
This is the highest number of applications the board has received in its history of conducting UTME.
Last year, over 1.9 million candidates applied for the UTME.
Of these figures, 41,026 candidates who applied for the examination are below 16 years.
The examination will start on April 25 in over 700 computer based-test centres nationwide.
JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development while speaking with our correspondent yesterday in Abuja.
