The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has registered over 1.8 million candidates fro the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Head Media and Information of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in an interview with pressmen in Lagos.
JAMB said the registration of candidates for all the Computer Based Tests (CBTs) started on the 10th of February and ended on the 21st of February, 2019.
“We have concluded the registration and we recorded over 1.8 million candidates for the UTME this year.
“Registration closed on February 21, when we stopped the pin vending for the exercise.
“However, some candidates who had acquired the pin but were unable to register before February 21, due to one reason or the other, were allowed to do so till 12 midnight, February 25.
“The registration finally closed on February 25”, Dr. Benjamin said.
JAMB’s spokesperson dismissed rumors that candidates could start printing their examination notification slips from the 2nd of March.
He said, ‘’Let me sound it clearly that the board has not come up with any date for both the examination and the printing of examination notification slip for candidates.
“The board will announce the date for the 2019 UTME soon.
“As it is now, no date has been fixed yet for both the examination and the printing of examination notification slip.
“The examination slips are usually printed, two weeks to the main examination, but that is only after when the examination date has been fixed.
“There is no way anybody can print examination notification slip when the examination date, itself, has not been fixed.”
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