The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has expressed worries over the low turnout of registrations by candidates for the examination.
This is even as JAMB established additional registration points for aspiring 2024 Direct Entry, DE, candidates. But following the poor turnout, the Board has described the added registration points as largely unnecessary.
Recall that JAMB had established additional registration points beyond the Professional Registration Centres, PRCs, in Lagos, Kwara, Osun, and Ogun State. This, it said was to accommodate the 2024 Direct Entry, DE, candidates.
But in a statement by JAMB’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on Wednesday, he said turnout at the extra registration centres was low.
Benjamin stated that the additional centres, created at JKK Lagos, JAMB PRC Ikoyi, and Ogba, and Ikeja in Lagos, were created to ensure that every eligible candidate registers.
He, however, stated that a vast majority of prospective DE candidates have already completed their registration.
“Some of the centres saw fewer than ten candidates per day. This is despite having the capacity to handle over 100, daily.
But notwithstanding the low turnout, JAMB urged remaining eligible candidates to seize the opportunity to register. He pointed that no further extensions will be granted at the close of the current exercise.
JAMB also stated that the extra registration points will remain open until the exercise concludes on Monday, June 17, 2024. The Board, therefore, maintained that no appeals for additional time will be entertained.
The 2024 Supplementary UTME exams will now be held on both Friday, June 21 and Saturday, June 22, 2024.
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