208 Prison Inmates To Sit For 2015 UTME; Imo State Record The Highest Applicants

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said that 1,475,477
candidates will sit for this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examinations scheduled for between March 10 and 21.

Among the candidates are 208 prison inmates and 192 visually impaired
candidates. The prison inmates are from Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, who announced this in Abuja
on Thursday, however, noted the number of candidates writing the
examination this year dropped when compared to that of 2014.

He stated that 1,632,172 candidates sat for the examination in 2014.

The registrar, who said the examination would hold in 400 centres in
Nigeria and in seven overseas countries, also noted that Imo State
recorded 104, 381 candidates, the highest applicants from the states
this year.

Delta State came second with 78,854 candidates while Anambra State
came third with 77,689 candidates.

The Federal Capital Territory CT, according to him, has the lowest
with 4,085 candidates.

Three North-east states, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, have 15,692, 15,613
and 10,044 candidates in that order.

Ojerinde, who attributed the decline in the number of applications to
insecurity in some parts of the country, added that the CBT platform
also eliminated multiple registrations by the candidates.
--PUNCH