2025 UTME: JAMB shares important update ahead of exam, see details

• The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is already gearing up for the 2025 UTME
• Legit.ng reports that JAMB conducts entrance Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for prospective undergraduates into Nigerian universities
• JAMB has concluded plans to issue UTME 2025 candidates with customised phone Sims for the examinations’ registration

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Garki, Abuja - JAMB has said as part of measures to address the perennial challenges of theft or missing SIM cards, it has concluded arrangements to partner with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to issue the UTME candidates with customised phone Sims for the examinations’ registration.

The registrar of JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede, explained this during the recent visit of a delegation of the West Africa Civil Societies Forum (WACSOF) to his office in Abuja.

Oloyede’s effort in the application of IT has notably facilitated the discharge of his duties in JAMB. Photo credit: Jamb official
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JAMB working towards making UTME registration seamless

According to Oloyede, the customised SIMs would be used for UTME registration and would be accessible to only parents with an expiry date of five years. He expressed confidence that the new SIM regime would solve the avalanche of problems associated with candidates' registration.

The professor of Islamic Studies assured the coalition of civil society groups of JAMB's commitment to making its UTME registration not only seamless but also more flexible and user-friendly.

Furthermore, the former vice-chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) expressed the determination of the agency to continually come up with ways of leveraging state-of-the-art technology to render efficient service delivery to Nigerians.

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UTME 2024: JAMB speaks on exam's rescheduling

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Oloyede listed some of the infractions that led to the rescheduling of the UTME for thousands of candidates.

According to JAMB's bulletin, Oloyede at a virtual meeting with affected centres, which was hosted from the headquarters of the agency pointed out that the decision to reschedule the examination would gulp a whopping N100 million.

Source: Legit.ng