The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced that it has registered over 300,000 candidates for its 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in one week.
The Board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this to journalists on Friday in Lagos.
It will be recalled that the board commenced registration of candidates for the 2019 all Computer Based Test (CBT) on Jan.10 and it would close on Feb. 21.
According to Benjamin, the registration process has been seamless. “We are happy with the way the process is going; we hope it will continue this way. “So far, we have registered over 300,000 candidates as at Thursday.
“We are happy there have not been issues because so far, there is just a tiny gap between the number of candidates that have acquired the e-pin and that of those that have registered,” he said. Meanwhile JAMB had insisted that all candidates with issues of biometrics must go over to Abuja for it to be rectified.
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“I want to reiterate the fact that only the Registrar of the board has the sole right to attend to such issues. “Any candidate who may have issues with the capturing of his or her finger prints at their respective points of registration will need to come down to our office in Abuja.
“This will require the Chief Executive to do it himself for the purpose of security,” Benjamin said.
Meanwhile, some stakeholders have urged the board to set up special centres in very state of the country to tackle issues.
Citing dangers of transportation, fares and safety, the National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) had argued that asking candidates with biometric issues to travel all the way to Abuja to get such issues sorted out was too demanding,
According to the second Deputy National President of the Association, Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, such will be difficult as most parents were barely struggling to get money to get their children and wards registered.
For such parents, travelling to Abuja to resolve biometric issues will be an uneccessary burden, Ogunbanjo added.