The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB says there will be no extension of registration for 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, candidates.
Spokesman for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin made this known in a statement in Abuja.
He advised all prospective candidates in the ongoing 2022 UTME and Direct Entry, DE registration exercises to make sure they complete their registrations before March 26, 2022, saying there will be no extension of date.
The JAMB image maker said the only window allotted to the board to conduct the exercise by relevant authorities is between 19th February and 26th March, 2022.
According to him, “it is practically impossible for the board to even contemplate any extension of registration as sister examination bodies such as West African Examination Council, WAEC, National Examination Council NECO and National Business and Technical Examination Board NABTEB have their allotted time which the board could not usurp”.
Benjamin added that before the commencement of registration or examination for any given year, all public examination bodies are invited to a roundtable where they are expected to agree on the timetable of activities for each examination agency which must be strictly adhered to.
He noted that registration and examination dates are usually not fixed arbitrarily but through a consensus of opinions of the Federal Ministry of Education and examination agencies.
The announcement was necessary because of the drop in the number of candidates coming forward to register in spite of the capacity of the Board to register more daily. “By this announcement, the board is urging prospective candidates who desire to register for the 2022/23 UTME/DE to register as they have only two weeks to do so, as no extension will be granted after the close of registration,” he said.
