The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new date to commence registration of 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) and Direct Entry(DE)
The board had announced Saturday, February 12th to 19th 2022 to commence the registration.
However, JAMB has rescheduled the exercise to March 19 to 26, 2022.
The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
He noted that 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.
While noting that the Board is ever-ready to provide world-class services to Nigerians, he 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.
The candidates, according to him, are by this notice, urged to follow keenly the procedures for registration as would be announced by the Board.
Recall that in its weekly bulletin released on Monday, January 31, the UTME exercise initially scheduled for April 20 to 30, would now hold as from Friday, May 6 to Monday, May 16, DAILY GIST reports.
Similarly, the mock-UTME exercise earlier scheduled for April 2, would now be held on April 16.
