The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has confirmed that a total of 1,475,477 candidates registered for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as against the 1,632,172 candidates who sat for the examination last year.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde who disclosed this at press conference in Abuja, said that this represented a 9.6 per cent decrease in the number of registered candidates.
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He denied reports that the Board had postponed the examination, saying the exam is scheduled to hold between Tuesday March 10 and Saturday March 21 across 400 centers in the country and seven foreign countries namely; Ghana, Cameroon, Republic of Benin, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Ethiopia.
Ojerinde revealed that about 208 prison inmates from Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons are also going to write the examination.
He stressed that the Board would leave no stone unturned in ensuring that the nation’s education sector is placed on the same pedestal with other developed nations.
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