COVID-19 era: JAMB relaxes rules to cover pre-2020 services

To ensure that candidates who took the UTME prior to 2020 or applied through Direct Entry and who require certain corrections of their processes are accommodated, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has lifted the suspension earlier placed on processes covering those years.

To prevent overcrowding at its Computer-Based Test Centres and other partner facilities, in line with extantCOVID-19protocols issued by relevant agencies, the board  had allowed  candidates to seek corrections and other processes only through the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)or Direct Entry(DE)platforms. This measure had the intended effect of limiting the number of persons visiting the centres.

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However, the board noted that “as government continues to ease the lockdown leading to the resumption of students in exit classes, the number of 2020  UTME candidates needing one service or another at the various centres, has drastically gone down.

“Thus, the Board has decided to open up its platforms to accommodate more requests especially from previous years. Therefore, all requests for printing of admission letters, inter-university transfers, issues of illegitimate  admissions and other processes for previous years which had been hitherto suspended would now be restored from Monday, 31st August, 2020.

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“However, it is to be noted that most of these operations are only available at JAMB offices nationwide. Furthermore, as the Board is desirous of sustaining compliance with COVID-19 protocols, it maintains that 2020 UTME candidates desirous of these services will only be attended to under a regulated format which would allow our offices to attend to only a specific number of candidates per day.

“The Board urges all State offices to ensure that all clients comply with all existing COVID -19 protocols.”