JAMB commences rescheduling of UTME for affected candidates

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the rescheduling of the 379,997 affected candidates for another Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination.

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

At one of the biggest CBT Centers in Lagos located at the WAEC office in Ogba, students participating in the rescheduled exams had arrived as early as 6am while some parents who followed their children to the JAMB centres were seen sitting on the floor.

It would be recalled that Prof Oloyede admitted errors in the just-concluded exam affecting 206,610 in 65 centres were affected in Lagos and 92 centres in Owerri zone comprising of 173,387 candidates in the five states of the South East.