By Grace Omachoko
The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has declared registration date for 2024/2025 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations to begin Monday, 15th January and end on February 24th, 2024.
In a meeting with media executives on Sunday in Lagos State, the JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, stated that precautions have been taken to guarantee a smooth exam, noting also that registration for qualified applicants has opened nationwide.
Oloyede said, “Prior to the commencement of the registration exercise, the Board conducts an accreditation exercise to check the suitability of each CBT Centre for the conduct of its examination.”
Oloyede noted that members of the accreditation team of the CBT centres for the 2024 UTME included the Chief External Examiners (VCs/Rectors/Provosts), Technical Advisors, JAMB state coordinators and JAMB Technical Officers.
As contained in the presentation by the exam body to the relevant stakeholders, part of the procedures for the registration is that candidates are expected to create a profile through the National Identity Number at various Computer-Based Test centres across the country.
To register, candidates are also expected to generate their profile with the use of either JAMB USS codes 55019 or 66019.
The registrar, however, warned that “Only one sort code is allowed to avoid multiple charges.”
Oloyede said, is compulsory for candidates, as a unique verification tool to thumbprint to end the registration exercise.
According to the procedure, the registration fee is N3,500 and the payment will be cashless to avoid any extortion.
A document made available to media executives on Sunday revealed that JAMB accredited 747 CBT centres for the 2024 UTME across the nation as against the 613 approved centres in 2023.
This means there is an increase of 134 CBT centres for the year’s matriculation examinations.
Lagos tops the list of states with the highest number of accredited centres with 80, followed by Ogun with 44 while Oyo takes the third position with 42 centres.
Zamfara has the lowest number of accredited centres – 6, while both Ebonyi and Kebbi States had 8 centres each.
Reports revealed that there are 226 centres across the South-West geopolitical zone, which makes it the zone with the highest number of CBT centres while the North-East was the lowest with 67 centres.