JAMB Cancels Special Centres For 2016 UTME (CBT)
The Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has on Sunday, February 21,
announced that special centres would not be created for the 2016 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME).
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),
the UTME, which will be Computer Base Test (CBT) mode all through, is expected
to begin on Monday, February 29.
In a statement by Head, Media and Information of the
board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said the attention of the board was drawn to
protests by some alleged prospective candidates in Edo and Lagos states over
the closure of the board’s registration portal in preparation to the UTME.
“The board sincerely sympathizes with the plight of
these prospective candidates.
“It is indeed the wish of the
board that the Nigerian youth desirous of tertiary education are given ample
opportunity to register for its examination.
“This is why it began the sale of
its application document in August 2015, which is about seven months ago.
“In the advertisement for the
sale of the registration documents, the board clearly stated that the sales
would close by January.
“But due to public appeal it
extended the registration process to February,” the statement read in part.
The board further stated that it could not allow
candidates to register perpetually, adding that it had a time table and it
adheres strictly to it. It noted that this was to allow tertiary institutions
to begin admission processes early.
“We all must work to enshrine the culture of
discipline in the system and ensure that tertiary institutions calendars are
not truncated.
“It is most unfortunate that some
candidates waited until our website was withdrawn before making attempts to
register,” the board stated.
It noted that every aspiring candidate was expected to
know the procedure as proper publicity involving the media was done.
More than one million candidates have so far
registered for the examination on the all CBT platform within and outside the
country.
More than 500 centres were also accredited for the
conduct of the examination within and outside Nigeria.
(NAN)
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