by Dolapo Adelana

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has so far registered 600,000 candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the country.

The organisation’s Head of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, made this known on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT.

He said JAMB was not going to extend the registration period as every candidate will register before the deadline.

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The spokesman said that measures were on ground to ensure the regulated platform could help candidates to get registered before the end of the month and to prevent irregularities in registration.

 

“We have already registered 600,000 candidates since sales of form began March 20, how can there be inadequate centres or lack of manpower, when we have more than 400 centres.

“There is no such delay as alleged by some candidates, the issue here is that plenty people are registering for the UTME at the same time.

“The internet is working, if it is not working how then we arrived at the total of 600,000 that have so far been duly registered.

“Large numbers of applicants seeking to register for UTME go to the Banks allocated for the exercise that is why there seem to be some form of delays and irregularities.

“Before we used three banks and now it is 15 banks because the period is short, but we are not going to extend the registration period, before deadline every candidate will register,” he said.