The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, (JAMB), yesterday announced that the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME) and Direct Entry, (DE), earlier slated for June 3 will now commence from June 19 to July 3.
The Board stated these in a communique issued at the end of a two–day meeting in Abuja.
The Board also announced a two weeks extension for candidates to register, saying the registration exercise will end on May 29. It further said that the Mock UTME earlier scheduled for 20th May will now hold on June 3.
The communique was read by the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is’haq Oloyede.
He said the decision was taken to afford prospective candidates more time to complete their registration for the 2021 UTME/DE. The Registrar further said that only 1,134,424 candidates (UTME+DE) have so far been registered.
“JAMB will dispatch monitoring teams to all States of the Federation and the FCT during the extension period”, the communique stated.
The Board further directed computer-based test centres, (CBTs), to stop selling ePINs, saying that flouting this directive would attract appropriate sanctions.
According to the Board, no CBT centre should collect money for ePIN and registration fees simultaneously. It also warned CBT centres not to collect registration fees until completion of registration, with a threat of sanction against any CBT centre that violates the instruction.
The communique further stated, “CBT centres are directed to open all twenty (20) allowable registration points, in order to ease congestion at the centres.
“Candidates for Direct Entry are reminded to, while procuring their ePIN, specify their category of admission. However, where a DE candidate mistakenly purchases an ePIN for UTME, the selling point is hereby directed to rectify the error by swapping the ePIN to DE at no further cost to the candidate.
“All prospective candidates and other Users who have not received a response from 55019 are requested to send their Tracking ID, or NIN to nimc jamb2021@nimc.gov.ng”.
