UTME Candidates Protest Non-availability of Exams Centres

Thousands of candidates who have registered for the coming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination across the country are yet to know their examination centres

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A group of the affected candidates trooped to the major streets of Ibadan on Tuesday to register their protest against the anomaly, which they said that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board had failed to address.

The protesters, led by one Master Ola Jacobs, said the candidates had visited JAMB office to lay the complaints but up till now, they had not received examination centres.

He said, “There is no centre for us in the Southwest to write the exams. Can you imagine a candidate travelling as far as Enugu to write an examination just because there is no centre here?

“Some candidates will go to Abuja, Nasarawa and Edo. Candidates who registered last year had no problems.

“But, all of us who registered last month have no centres. We have gone to JAMB to complain but our problems were not addressed. The deadline was last Friday but it was extended to Friday.”

 “Each time we go to their office, they tell us cards are not available. The same cards are being sold in black market for N9,000 but the approved price  is N5,500.

“All we are saying is that they should extend the deadline to enable them address this issue. They should pity us,” he said.