1.8 million candidates apply for the UTME, and JAMB partners with CBT centers to save diesel costs.
According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, 1,837,011 students have enrolled for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 2022.
The amount included Direct Entry candidates, according to the board, which announced it in its weekly bulletin on Monday
The 2022 UTME registration period began on February 19 and ended on March 26. The examinations will take place from May 6 to May 16.
JAMB further revealed that the statutory N700 service charge had been remitted to its approved computer-based test centers for a total of N238,105,700 since the fifth week of registration.
The board had earlier banned the use of cash in all its accredited CBT centres during the exercise.
It directed all candidates to pay the service charge to the e-PIN vendors along with the N3,500 application fee, which it remitted to the centres on a weekly basis proportional to the number of candidates they registered.
The board, however, said payment of the accumulated sum to all centres excluded JAMB-owned CBT centres.
Meanwhile, the board has appealed to the CBT test centre operators over the recent hike in the price of diesel.
The Registrar, JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, stated that the board was engaged in consultations with relevant agencies of government on the necessary assistance to be rendered to owners of the CBT centres.
The bulletin stated, “The board is in consultation with relevant agencies of government on providing appropriate remedies as part of its strategies for a holistic solution to the problem. He reiterated the desire of the board to offer critical support to its service partners at every point of its operational processes.
“According to the registrar, this assurance was necessary in view of the heavy reliance on diesel-powered generators to administer the board’s examination.
“Hence, he declared that the board would always go the extra mile to render support to its critical partners such that no service provider would have any excuse for failure.
“Consequently, the registrar expressed the desire of the board to, among other measures, offer necessary palliatives to the CBT centres within approved government limits. He, therefore, appealed to the CBT centre owners to give the board a little more time to get the necessary approvals that would go a long way in ameliorating their plight.”
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