Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede yesterday said the much-awaited
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will hold in May as
part of steps to check malpractices.
He also said the agency had handed over
10 officials to the police for investigation in connection with fraud
associated with sales of scratch cards.
Prof. Oloyede said JAMB had eliminated the use of scratch cards because UTME candidates were being extorted.
He said: “For the 2017 UTME, we have
taken a decision to commence the sale of the form soon. Within the next
two weeks, we will be out.
The reason for this is that we are making all
arrangements that ought to be made.
We have changed the process of
payment, no more scratch card selling. We need to put the right
architecture in place and we have put this in place.
“The examination will be coming up later
than usual. This is to make sure we take into consideration the
interest of the students. We are going to conduct the UTME in May. He therefore assures students that the exercise
will not clash with any SSCE examinations.
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