The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and the Direct Entry, DE, registration by two weeks.
The board also extended the UTME examination as well as the mock to future dates.
JAMB’S Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, announced the extension at a press conference, Saturday, in Abuja.
He said the decision was the outcome of a two-day stakeholders’ meeting the board had in Abuja.
Oloyede said stakeholders recommended that a two-week extension be granted to candidates who had not been able to register as a result of some challenges associated with the National Identification Number, NIN, and others.
He said a total of 1,134,424 candidates had so far registered as of the time the press conference was held.
▪︎ 2021 Mock holds June 3, UTME June 19 to July 3
He said at the end of the meeting, stakeholders recommended a two-week extension for the exercise fixing the new date for May 29.
The board had earlier fixed the deadline for registration for May 15, however, had to extend the date owing to challenges candidates were faced with during registration.
Oloyede said that following this, the 2021 Mock earlier scheduled for May 20 would now hold on June 3, while the UTME would hold from June 19 to July 3.
“Field reports showed a huge improvement in the processes. As at today, 1,134,424 candidates have so far registered.
“Stakeholders undertook on the spot assessment of the CBT centres and discovered lapses which warranted the extension.
“The challenges among other include candidates non-compliance with registration requirements, using wrong format to generate profile code and using multiple phone numbers, among others,” he said.
Oloyede said that the board would disburse monitoring team to the states of the federation and direct CBT centres to stop selling e-pins.
He said that the board would sanction any CBT centres that violated the board’s requirements.
He, therefore, implore the Ministry of Education to help discourage parents to desist from registering underage children to pursue tertiary education.
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