UTME 2024: No Glitches Recorded, Says JAMB Zonal Coordinator
The 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination began on Friday in Oyo State without glitches, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Zonal Coordinator, Mr Gbenga Akintola has said.
Akintola stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan after monitoring the examination in some centres in the state capital.
NAN reports that the examination started at the stipulated time in the centres on day one of the five-day exercise.
According to the JAMB coordinator, the centres are scheduled to hold two sessions of the examination each day.
Akintola said, “This is our business and every year we keep improving our strategies.
“We have not received any negative news from our centres.
“If any centre has any issue they would have called, but we have not received any report of glitches whatsoever.”
He said JAMB took care of every category of candidates including persons with disabilities.
According to him, candidates with Down Syndrome, Altruism, physically challenged and others are at special centres across the country where they will write the exam.
“For the South-West, it has been taken care of at the Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, where there are adequate facilities for the exercise.
“And other zones of the country have designated special centres for these categories of candidates,” Akintola said.
He said some centres in some states were delisted as accredited centres due to infractions and not meeting stipulated standard during the mock examination.
Akintola, however, said that no centre was delisted in Oyo State.
NAN reports that the coordinator declined to give the number of candidates sitting for the examination and the number of Computer Based Test centres in the state.
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