The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has said registration for the 2024/2025 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) begins today Monday and ends on February 24, 2024.
JAMB has also rolled out the registration process for interested candidates across the country, reports Daily Independent.
The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, during a meeting with media executives in Lagos State yesterday, explained that measures have been put in place to ensure a smooth exercise.
Oloyede said, “Before the commencement of the registration exercise, the Board conducts an accreditation exercise to check the suitability of each CBT Centre for the conduct of its examination.”
Oloyede noted that members of the accreditation team of the CBT centres for the 2024 UTME included the Chief External Examiners (VCs, Rectors, and Provosts), Technical Advisors, JAMB state coordinators, and JAMB Technical Officers.
As contained in the presentation by the exam body to the relevant stakeholders, part of the procedure for registration is that candidates are expected to create a profile through the National Identity Number at various computer-based test centres across the country.
To register, candidates are also expected to generate their profile with the use of either JAMB USS codes 55019 or 66019.
The registrar, however, warned, “Only one sort code is allowed to avoid multiple charges.”
This, Oloyede said, is compulsory for candidates as a unique verification tool to thumbprint to end the registration exercise.
According to the procedure, the registration fee is N3,500, and the payment will be cashless to avoid any extortion.
JAMB has accredited 747 CBT centres for the 2024 UTME across the nation as against the 613 approved centres in 2023.
This means there is an increase of 134 CBT centres for the year’s matriculation examinations.
Lagos tops the list of states with the highest number of accredited centres with 80, followed by Ogun with 44, while Oyo takes the third position with 42 centres.
Zamfara has the least number of accredited centres (6), while both Ebonyi and Kebbi States have 8 centres each.
Analysis revealed that there are 226 centres across the South-West geopolitical zone, which makes it the zone with the highest number of CBT centres while the North-East was the lowest with 67 centres.
