JAMB commences UTME nationwide with over 1.6m candidates

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), kicked off the conduct of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Tuesday.

The Board had revealed that over 1.6 million candidates registered to sit for the examination nationwide.

The entry level examination into tertiary institutions in the country which began on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 will run till Wednesday, May 3, 2023.

Prior to the commencement, the JAMB authorities had extended the closing date for the ongoing 2023 Direct Entry (DE) by one week.

The extension was announced by JAMB’s Spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin earlier.

Benjamin had noted that the DE registration exercise, which commenced on Monday, 20th March, 2023, and billed to end on Thursday, 20th April, 2023, had been extended by one week starting from Friday, 21st April, 2023.

He explained that the extension was partly to give all holders of Cambridge A/Level Certificates, who were unable to register for the exercise on account of some issues associated with the verification of their certificates, another opportunity to do so, as well as accommodate others, who wish to register but were unable to do so within the stipulated time.