JAMB may conduct second UTME this year, says registrar

Ishaq Oloyede, registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says the exam body may conduct a second 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates with genuine registration issues.

According to NAN, Oloyede spoke on Wednesday while monitoring the profiling of candidates with 2021 UTME registration challenges in Lagos.

“So far, we have just 17, 758 candidates with challenges that had been profiled, nationwide,” he said.

“At the end of the entire exercise, we may have to conduct another examination for those with genuine cases after the main UTME slated for June 19 to July 3.”

Oloyede also expressed the board’s commitment to ensure that every Nigerian child who seeks tertiary education would be given an equal opportunity.

“Since I came here this morning and interacted with candidates, I have discovered that most of them are largely unserious and are basically the cause of most of their challenges,” he said.

“We keep hearing flimsy excuses such as my lesson teacher used his phone to generate the profile code, our tutorial centre helped us to register and I was not in town.

“Other reasons advanced are: I used my mother’s NIN to generate my profile code, my mummy did the registration for me.”

According to the registrar, some candidates were honest enough to say they did not have money to procure the UTME forms.