UNILAG convocation to affect UTME candidates – JAMB official

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The 2016 all Computer Based Test ( CBT) version of the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME),
conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) would not hold at the University of Lagos
centre until March 7.
Dr Beatrice Okorie, the Coordinator of JAMB National
Head quarters Annex, Lagos, told journalists that this was
because of the institution’s 2014/2015 convocation that
would start on Monday , Feb.29 with the convocation
lecture.
The convocation will run till March 3, she said.
Okorie had ,however, commenced the conduct of
candidates during the examinations for being peaceful
and seamless.
According to her, candidates at the Yaba College of
Education centre where she monitored the examination
for instance, arrived the centre as early as 8.30 a.m.
She said that the candidates were searched and screened
by men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp
(NSCDC), using the scanners.
"The conduct of this year's examination looks
encouraging, smooth and stress free
"It is seamless as reports reaching me from the slit one
of the examination that comprises 30 centres across the
state says that so far the exams have been very peaceful
with no issues at all.
"Here in our centre, actually we have 53 accredited
centres but we used 30 for Saturday , but from Monday
we shall put all the remaining 23 others in use.
"We have enough machines for the biometrics and as a
result, there was no waste of time in checking the
candidates into the examination hall,’’ Okorie said.
She said that the entire examination centre was calm and
one would hardly know that an examination was going on
here unlike what was obtained before then.
She said that only one session of the examination was
held on Saturday in all the examination centres in and
outside the country.
NAN reports that 1.8 million candidates are sitting for the
examination in 540 centres in Nigeria and eight foreign
centres, including Cameroon.
The figure includes 343 inmates and 201 visually impaired
candidates.
The examination is expected to be concluded on March
11.

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