Competitors hail JAMB over Saturday's UTME

Abuja – No less than 57,000 competitors sat for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Saturday in 642 focuses the nation over. 

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who tended to newsmen at Digital Bridge Institute, Abuja, one of the UTME focuses, said four focuses experienced specialized issues while one was being researched for acts of neglect. 

Saturday denoted the main day of the 2017 version of the selection test into the country's tertiary foundation in which no less than 1.7 million applicants are partaking. Oloyede additionally said the morning session examination initiated late in a few focuses while it began ahead of schedule in others. "Out of 642 focuses, we had issues with four in Bauchi, Kano,Uturu and Ekpoma. "Everything was alright, there was a little unsettling influence in Ekpoma and we are observing what is happening. "There was a little issue in Uturu; we are observing what is going on there as well,'' he said. He said because of the bomb impact in Maiduguri on Friday night, JAMB chosen to defer the examination for some time, including that the examination had since started. 
"Because of what occurred over night and due to the militarisation of the grounds, we needed to defer the initiation of the exams in Maiduguri. " 

Also the Seventh Day Adventist won't have exams in every one of the focuses across the nation on Saturday,'' he included. Mr Enobong Bassey, a staff of the Digital Bridge Institute, said the current year's release of the UTME was the best so far that the organization had directed. "Everything went easily, the examination was to begin 8 am and every one of the understudies were situated by 10 minutes to eight. "In spite of the fact that a couple of understudies came late on account of the effortlessness time frame, they could compose. "Where there was any issue with any framework, there was no issue since we had adequate reinforcement framework. A portion of the understudies, who talked said the examination went on well and they had no test utilizing the PCs.