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Why candidates can’t print exam notification slips yet -JAMB

Clement Daniel with Agency report
Clement Daniel with Agency report
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that candidates who applied for its examination cannot print their examination notification slips yet.

This is because the examination dates have not been fixed.

JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigerian, NAN, on Thursday.

He debunked rumours that examination notification slips could be printed from March 2.

While disclosing that the date of the examination would be announced soon, he explained that it would not be possible to print the slips when the date for the examination had not been fixed.

His words:  “This is misleading and absolutely not correct.

“Let me sound it clearly that the board has not come up with any date for both the examination and the printing of examination notification slip for candidates.

“The board will announce the date for the 2019 UTME soon.

“As it is now, no date has been fixed yet for both the examination and the printing of examination notification slip.

“The examination slips are usually printed, two weeks to the main examination, but that is only after when the examination date has been fixed.

“There is no way anybody can print examination notification slip when the examination date, itself, has not been fixed.”

Dr. Benjamin who described the recently completed registration exercise for the examination as successful, said no fewer than 1.8 million candidates were registered.

Said he:  “We have concluded the registration and we recorded over 1.8 million candidates for the UTME this year.

“Registration closed on Feb. 21, when we stopped the pin vending for the exercise.

“However, some candidates who had acquired the pin but were unable to register before Feb. 21, due to one reason or the other, were allowed to do so till 12 midnight, Feb. 25.

“The registration finally closed on Feb. 25.” he said.

It would be recalled that JAMB shifted its mock exam billed for February 23 in view of the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly election.

JAMB said it would carefully look at the calendar before fixing dates so that they would not clash with government’s programmes.

 

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