The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) may conduct a second 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for candidates with genuine registration challenges.
The Registrar of the board, Is-haq Oloyede, made the disclosure in Lagos while monitoring profiling of candidates with 2021 UTME registration challenges.
Oloyede said so far, there are about 17, 758 candidates with challenges that had been profiled, nationwide.
He said at the end of the entire exercise, the board may have to conduct another examination for those with genuine cases after the main UTME slated for June 19 to July 3.
He reiterated the board’s commitment to ensuring that every Nigerian child desirous of tertiary education would be given an equal opportunity.
He is quoted as saying “Since I came here this morning and interacted with candidates, I have discovered that most of them are largely unserious and are basically the cause of most of their challenges.
Over 500,000 candidates had claimed they were unable to register for the examination within the given time frame – before May 15. JAMB later extended the registration to May 29.
The candidates cited inability to generate a profile code and difficulty in obtaining the National Identification Number (NIN).
JAMB had insisted that no candidate would be allowed to sit for the examination without providing the NIN.
Following the challenges, the board allowed a two-week window for the affected people to lodge their complaints at its offices or registration centres and get help.
Addressing journalists later, the JAMB official called on state ministries of education to regulate activities of tutorial centres as a strategy to save the education sector from collapse.
He said that activities of some tutorial centres remained a hindrance to efforts at sanitising the country’s education system, adding that utorial centres are a haven for examination malpractice
He regretted that some parents were patronising them with delight, while calling on the parents to learn to allow their children and wards go through the normal process of learning so that they can be psychologically mature for tertiary education.
He said “In order to show the nation that the problem of registration is not what a section of the media is painting it to be, we came up with this initiative of asking all candidates with genuine excuses to visit our offices nationwide.”
The registrar said through the process, JAMB discovered that some candidates went as far as using their bank verification numbers in a bid to get their profile codes rather than the NIN.
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