Jamb Registers 1.1 Million Students; Announces No Deadline Extension

According to Professor Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) (UTME), over 1.16 million applicants to tertiary institutions have registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

Professor Oloyede made this statement while observing various CBT centres in Abuja on Saturday.

He stated that the Board will not extend the registration deadline for the 2023 Unified UTME while admonishing centres against exploiting candidates.

The 2023 UTME sale opened on Saturday, January 14, 2023, and ends on February 14, 2023.

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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 that school, Stella Maris is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then ending up missing up the telephone number of the candidates.”

He said once they keep the telephone number of candidates, “it is unlikely that the candidates when we are contacting them if we want to make a change in their timetable, you send a text to them and it will not get to them after they have graduated from the school and want to do a change, of course, they don’t have access to it.

“That is a way of extorting the parents and we will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that. One of the reasons is that we will tell every CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchases of a pin and bulk registration so if the centre sells more than one pin to a source or collect money for more than one pin from a source then we will sanction such center.”

He asked candidates to report instances of extortion, explaining that there is a code for them to use to contact the board when they come across any such situation and promised a reward for doing so.