The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday assured that this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination will hold in the troubled Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
The Paper Pencil Test and the Dual Based Test would begin on Saturday while Computer Based Test will commence on May 17.
It, however, insisted that the conduct of PPT examination will stop in 2015.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, lamented that insecurity in the North-East had resulted in a sharp drop of applicants for this year’s examination.
He said 1,606,753 candidates applied for this year’s examination.
According to him, this is a decrease of 129,139 applicants, compared with last year’s figure of 1,735,892.
He, however, said arrangements had been made to ensure hitch-free examinations across the country including the North-East.
“Although there are insecurity challenges in some areas, we are making efforts to ensure that examinations are conducted in those places.
If the worse comes to worst, we will resort to Computer Based Test for the candidates”, he said.
He added that the examination would hold simultaneously in 392 towns in Nigeria and seven foreign countries: Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Cote D’Voire.
The PPT, DBT and CBT will take place at 1,865; 133 and 153 centres respectively.
The board advised candidates not to come with calculators, pencils, erasers and sharpeners to examination centres as they would be provided for them. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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