The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said no fewer than 1.6 million candidates registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this on Monday, February 20, 2023, at the end of a joint monitoring exercise with the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr David Adejo, in Abuja.
Oloyede, however, disclosed that in the course of registration, 15 culprits were discovered to be defrauding the process, adding that the culprits had been apprehended and were currently detained:
“So far we have registered about 1.6 million candidates because we do not expect more than that, and that is because the direct entry starts today.
“We have the challenge of the normal people who want to defraud the process as we have been
monitoring what has been happening.
“We are ahead of them even when they think they are clever”, the JAMB Boss informed.
On his part, the Permanent Secretary said that there was need to extend the registration to give others faced with the challenge of naira redesigning opportunity to register.
“This is especially because registration process is dependent on bank operations and we’ve not have the top level of bank operations in the last two to three weeks for understandable reasons,” he said.
Adejo noted that before the extension of registration for one week, JAMB had actually registered about 98 per cent candidates, saying that no one would be left behind in its registration process.
