Except for few cases of lateness by candidates, the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was hitch-free in some parts of Lagos.
The examination started around 9.30am, some 30 minutes behind schedule due to delays in the biometric verification process in some centres visited.
Some supervisors complained the process was slow. It however, did not delay the examination unduly.
It was observed that a few candidates that arrived the centres more than one hour after the examination commenced were not allowed in.
Many of them broke down in tears.
They begged the supervisors to allow them in.
Some of them said they were late because they had to reprint their photo card (a one-page document detailing their names, registration number, centre name and number, institutions and programmes information as well as their photographs) yesterday morning.
The reference number, which they learnt they needed, was only uploaded only recently, according to them.
The Supervisor for Dairy Farm Senior Secondary School, Agege, Mr Oladayo Ibrahim said the reprint was unnecessary.
The candidates, he explained, only needed to provide their registration and centre numbers for verification.
Two candidates who came one hour late were allowed into the examination halls but one young man who came after them was not that lucky.
He begged invigilators to appeal to the supervisor on his behalf.
His black fitted top and blue jeans were soiled in the process.
At Sango Senior Secondary School, another centre nearby, three female candidates, who came one and half hours late wept profusely.
They claimed to have gone to another centre located in Pen Cinema where their names did not turn up when they thumb printed.
In Ogun, operative of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arrested 82 candidates for examination malpractices.
The candidates arrested from different centres across the state were caught using phones, books, palm tops, scientific calculators among others to answer test questions during the examination.
The NSCD Commandant, Ogun State, Mr Aboluwoye Akinwande, told reporters the suspects were arrested from Ogun Central followed by Ogun East and West respectively.
According to him, 30 persons were arrested at Abeokuta centre, Lisabi area 17, Ewekoro 9, while one arrest each was recorded for OOU centre and Molusi College senior and junior.
Akinwande said: “The first thing is that they have been made to fill relevant form. Investigation will be conducted,that will determine their culpability and then we can decide on trial as necessary information about them have been collected.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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