JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, at a meeting with the military high command in Abuja solicited the intervention and cooperation of the Nigerian Army to secure the forthcoming UTME.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has postponed the mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, which was initially scheduled to hold in selected accredited centres across the country on Saturday.
Jamb Registrar, Isaq Oloyede said experience worldwide has shown that candidates cannot be kept in an examination such as UTME for more than two hours.
JAMB spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, however clarified that awaiting results candidates who failed to upload their result between May and August, would not be confirmed to gain admission into any tertiary institution.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has disclosed that all Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination centres, UTME, which are now computer based centres, must deploy close circuit television cameras as part of measures to tackle examination malpractices.
Ahead of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, billed to hold in May 2017, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said candidates who are awaiting their O' level results would no longer qualify to apply for the annual matriculation examination
