JAMB begins rescheduling of UTME for affected 379,997 Lagos, S'East candidates

  Promise Obichukwu

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Thursday, May 15, 2025   2:28 PM

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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has begun the rescheduling process of the 379,997 candidates that were affected by technical glitch during the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination for another examination.


The rescheduling process started on Thursday morning after Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of the examination body made it known in a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.


Oloyede acknowledged the errors in the just-concluded exam affecting 92 centres in Owerri zone comprising of 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East and 206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos.


He also said, “The affected candidates will start getting text messages for reschedule starting from tomorrow.

“I apologise, I take full responsibility.”

Nevertheless, in the reprinted exam slip sighted by our correspondent, one of the affected candidates has been rescheduled to take her exam on Saturday, May 17, 2025 by 12noon in one of the Lagos centres in Igando community situated at the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.
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