About 1 .2 million Nigerians have been registered for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination , according to statistics from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board .
The UTME is billed to hold from March 9 to 17 .
JAMB ’ s Head of Information , Dr Fabian Benjamin , in an interview with our correspondent on Monday , said that all hands were on deck for a hitch - free examination .
He said , “We have over 1 .2 million candidates now registered for the examination . Last Friday , it was around 1 .1 million . The figure is updated daily . ”
Benjamin had , earlier in a statement , said that the 2018 UTME candidates could pick a College of Education , the Nigeria Defence Academy or the Police Academy as their institution of first choice .
He also gave the assurance that the examination would not fall short of the expectations of Nigerians .
Speaking during a recent briefing, the Registrar of JAMB , Prof Is - haq Oloyede , had noted that the board had unveiled some “new prohibitions ” for the 2018 UTME in order to check examination malpractice .
“The UTME Mock Examination will hold in the first week of February 2018 and the concerned Computer -Based Centres have been accredited . As we have earlier announced , the UTME will hold from March 9 to 17 , 2018 .
“We have prohibited some additional materials during the 2018 UTME in examination hall. These include wristwatches , biros , calculators , pencils except the HB Pencil , and any other device that can store data , transmit or receive signal no matter the form. These prohibitions are not only applicable to the candidates but also to all examination officials ,” Oloyede had said .
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