The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has expressed its full readiness to conduct a hitch-free Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for this year beginning on Thursday (tomorrow) across Nigeria.
The exam will last one week and take place in a total of 887 centres nationwide with no fewer than 2 million candidates to participate.
Also, more than 10,000 officials have been deployed for the exercise across the country.
The Head of Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, Dr Benjamin Fabian, gave this assurance on Wednesday evening at an online media dialogue organised by the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria (EWAN) to get the candidates and other stakeholders sensitise about the exercise.
According to Fabian, JAMB assigned candidates to exam centres based on their choice of exam towns during registration and no candidate was taken outside their choice towns.
He clarified that what could make any candidate to be taken outside their selected exam towns and which would be the nearest one can only be when the available centres have been filled up at the time of registration.
“And every candidate should know that their exam number, question papers, and other details are usually tied to their exam towns and to sit for the exam elsewhere will work against the candidate and that is why JAMB will never send any candidate outside their choice exam towns.
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