The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on
Thursday, warned that there would be no extension of registration for 2022
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidates.
Fabian Benjamin, spokesman for JAMB, while giving the
warning in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, advised all prospective candidates
in the ongoing 2022 UTME and Direct Entry (DE) Registration exercises to make
sure they complete their registrations before March 26, 2022, adding that there
will be no extension of date.
He said the only window allotted by relevant authorities to
the board to conduct the exercise is between 19th February, to 26th March,
2022, only.
He noted that, it was practically impossible for the board
to even contemplate any extension of registration as sister examination bodies
such as West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council
(NECO) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), have
their allotted time which the board could not usurp.
He added that before the commencement of registration or
examination for any given year, all public examination bodies are invited to a
roundtable where they are expected to agree on the timetable of activities for
each examination agency and which must be strictly adhered to.
He noted that registration and examination dates are usually
not fixed arbitrarily but through a consensus of opinions of the Federal
Ministry of Education and examination agencies.
He said the announcement was necessary because of the drop
in the number of candidates coming forward to register in spite of the capacity
of the Board to register more daily.
“By this announcement, the board is urging prospective
candidates who desire to register for the 2022/23 UTME/DE to come out to
register as they have only two weeks to do so as no extension would be granted
after the close of registration,” he said.
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