The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has stated that it would not extend the deadline for the 2023 unified UTME registration.
According to Nairametrics, this was made known in Abuja by JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, during a monitoring tour of some CBT centres in Abuja on Saturday, February 11, 2023.
The organization also stated that over 1.16 million individuals seeking admission to higher institutions had registered to take the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The JAMB registrar said, “Registration is going on well except for some of these schools.
“UTME is not a school-based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what some schools are doing collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up missing the telephone number of the candidates.
“So once they keep the telephone number of candidates it is unlikely that the candidates when we are contacting them to make a change in their timetable, you send a text to them and it will not get to them.’’
He added, “And that is a way of extorting the parents and we will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that.
“We will tell every CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchases of pins and bulk registration.
”So if a centre sells more than one pin to a source or collects money for more than one pin from a source, then we will sanction such centre.’
He also stated that the conduct of the 2023 UTME has been fixed for April 29, 2023, and is expected to end on May 12, 2023.
