Several issues are continuing to inhibit the commencement of the 2017 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) UTME registration which was supposed to start last week.
Some candidates who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, said that due to poor internet services, they have not been able to log into the JAMB’s website.
They said that after each candidate had paid N6,200 for the examination form to the bank and creating an e-mail address and JAMB profile, they were still unable to get a personal identification number (PIN) owing to poor internet services.
One of them, Modupe Alade, said she had completed the entire requirement but she was yet to collect her PIN from the JAMB’s website due to poor internet service.
She said that she had been visiting JAMB’s office in company with her friends who had same problem.
The staff of the examination body had been telling us to come back, Alade said.
She appealed to JAMB’s management to find a lasting solution to the internet problem to enable them register before the scheduled date of the examination.
Another candidate?, Tope Aina, said he was disappointed when he arrived the JAMB’s office and one of its staff members told him that he could not register for the examination due to poor internet connectivity.
He said that most of his friends had been standing inside the scorching sun since morning, waiting patiently to see if they would be able to finalise their registration process.
Other students who reacted to the issue expressed their dissatisfaction with the poor internet service of the examination body.
They all called for an urgent repair of the board’s connectivity service to enable them register for the examination in due course.
