The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, is set to extend registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, by two weeks, NewsSpecng learnt.
NewsSpecng also gathered that the examination itself would be postponed by another two weeks.
Our correspondent gathered on Friday that the extension in registration and the shift in the commencement of the examination would be suggested to stakeholders by the Registrar, Prof. Isaq Oloyede, during a meeting scheduled for late Friday.
The registration for the UTME had earlier been scheduled to end on Saturday May 15, but with the look of things, it may now be extended to May 29, 2021.
The examination, which is computer-based, earlier scheduled for June 5-19, may now start on June 19 and terminate on July 3, 2021.
However, the mock exam would still hold on May 20, and it is a voluntary exercise for interested candidates.
Sources told our corespondent that the steps became inevitable because as at Thursday night, only about 1.3 million candidates had registered for the exam.
This is a far cry from the expected figure of over 2 million candidates.
Last year, 2.1 million candidates sat for the same exam.
The problem with this year’s registration is the inability of many applicants to link their National Identification Number, NIN, to their applications.
The Head of Corporate Affairs of NIMC, Mr Kayode Adegoke, had given the assurance that the agency would be up to the task, but the reverse seem to be the case now.
