The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board has said registration for the 2024/2025 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations will begin on Monday (today) and end on February 24, 2024.
JAMB has also rolled out the registration process for
interested candidates across the country.
The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, during a meeting with
media executives in Lagos State on Sunday, said that measures have been put in
place to ensure a smooth exercise.
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.”
This, 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 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.
Analysis by PUNCH Online 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.