2022 UTME/DE: JAMB postpones Registration To February 19
Posted by Ahmed Iyanda | 2 years ago | 1,248 times
The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has postponed the commencement of the 2022/23 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) and Direct Entry(DE) registration exercise in other to fine tune and upgrade of the registration procedures.
The exercise was earlier scheduled for Saturday, 12th February 2022, but has now been postponed to Saturday, 19th February 2022 and to end on Saturday, 26th March 2022.
This was contained in s statement issued by the board and signed by its head, public affairs and protocol, Fabian Benjamin.
The statement read in part: “The one-week postponement is to allow for more fine-tuning of the upgraded and more user-friendly procedures for candidates’ registration.
He said the process, which will be concluded within the one-week extension period, is also aimed at accommodating feedback from candidates and other stakeholders alike.
“The board wishes the general public to note that the board is ever ready to provide world-class services to Nigerians.”
While noting that the Board is ever-ready to provide world-class services to Nigerians, Benjamin said the new and improved procedures for the 2022/23 UTME Registration would be made available on the Board’s website, its weekly bulletin as well as other media outlets on Monday, February 14, 2022.
Meanwhile, JAMB has also introduced self-registration outlets in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory and Lagos, the nation’s commercial hub, where it said candidates can visit, mount themselves on a computer and do the registration themselves.
The board said the new measure was to reduce the crowd at the accredited computer-based test (CBT) centres in the two cities.
