The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has registered 1.6 million candidates for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Oloyede was joined in the monitoring exercise by the Permanent Secretary, the Federal Ministry of Education, David Adajo.
Registrar of JAMB, Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday while monitoring the registration of applicants at the Global Distance Learning, Abuja.
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JAMB commenced the sale of the 2023 UTME form on Saturday, 14th January 2023., and was expected to close on Tuesday, February 14.
However, to ensure every candidate gets carried along, the Board extended the registration exercise by one week, starting from Wednesday, 15th February 2023.
Oloyede said: “So far we have registered 1.6 million (that is one million, six hundred thousand candidates.”
He said the Board has apprehended about 15 people who went against the conduct of the UTME registration processes.
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The permanent secretary explained that the extension was necessary to ensure all the candidates have time to register.
He said: “Ordinarily, registration for UTME has closed but to take care of people that could, for one reason or another not be able to make the deadline of February 14th, especially as you know, most of the registration processes depend on banks and we could not have top-level bank operations from the past three weeks for understandable reasons.
“Here the turnout is very low because the first set of registration that ended on February 14th had virtually captured more than 98 percent of people so the people that are being captured now are those that are left over.”
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