The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the March 26 deadline for the registration of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) will not be extended.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede announced this during the monitoring of the registration at Global Distance Learning Computer-Based Centre yesterday in Abuja.
Oloyede said the deadline would not be extended because the board was working on a “tight schedule”.
He expressed disapproval at the turnout of candidates at the centre, saying only one candidate turned up for registration, instead of the usual 200 or more candidates per day.
He said: “Today is March 21, 2022. We still have five days to go and you can see how vacant the CBT centres are. So, we are telling you so that nobody, on March 26, will have the guts to tell us to extend. Now, we have registered about 1.5 million to 1.6 million candidates. So, we are good to go.
“You can see how vacant the registration centres are. As big and as efficient as this centre is, you have only one candidate. And look at your time. So, it shows clearly that candidates are not coming out, or we may have exhausted the number of candidates that are eligible for registration.
“We are working on a very tight schedule because of the other examination bodies that have their slots. We cannot encroach into the slots of the National Examination Council (NECO), the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), and the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB).
“We have a very tight schedule. That is why we continue to say yes, we can register 100,000 in a day.”
