2023 UTME Takes Off Smoothly In FCT, Others

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the conduct of 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

LEADERSHIP reports that the UTME which began yesterday, will run till Wednesday, May 3, 2023.

JAMB had indicated that the examination would be conducted for over 1.6 million candidates who registered for the 2023 UTME.

Meanwhile, a visit to some of the centres by LEADERSHIP showed that candidates were already seated as early as 8am waiting for the commencement of the examination.

At the Global Distance Learning Institute, Abuja, the candidates sat at about 8am waiting for examination.

However, an invigilator who identified himself as Rilwanu said the time for the commencement was shifted from 8am to 8:30am and that they were waiting for the order from above.

Rilwanu said the delay was not due to technical hitches but to wait for instructions from JAMB so that the time would be in tandem with other centres.

One of the monitors Abdulrahaman Balogun said so far, he had been to several centres like Jikwoyi, Karu, and Distance Learning Institute and it was a success story.

“This centre (Distance Learning Institute), supposed to have three sessions at 7, 9 and 11am respectfully. However, they had some delay, it was not due to technical hitches but just to get the go ahead from the JAMB.

“From the record, the first session in this centre was supposed to have 200 candidates but 183 were accredited, 16 absentees and one unverified. As you can see, the second batch is already waiting. In all, we have close to 99 per cent success in orderliness, arrangements, everything is perfect,” he said.