We are not extending the registration deadline for the 2019 utme- Dr Emmanuel Ndukwe (the governing board chairman of the joint admissions amd matriculation board(jamb) says its likely they don’t extend the date.

On Monday, February 11, 2019, jamb spoke concerning the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which has been scheduled to commence next month march 16, JAMB said that they are fully prepared for the examination and that even if its set to start today they are ready. 

The board which made the announcement in its weekly bulletin of the Office of the Registrar in Abuja.

According to the bulletin, the board concluded preparation following the Governing Board’s consideration of all items on the checklist of the board in preparation to the 2019 UTME, among others.

This were the words of the board chairman Ndukwe, saying: “We have looked at all preliminary procedures and have come to the conclusion that if the board wants to conduct examination today, it can do so successfully without hitches.”

It added that the board analyzed the progress made in the registration exercise, centre accreditation, revalidation and a link test of all the Computer-Based Test Centres (CBT) to ascertain their functionality as claimed by the CBT centre owners.

Aguzie said this recently while fielding questions from newsmen shortly after touring some accredited Computer-Based Test centres in Lagos.

JAMB earlier announced that registration close on Thursday, February 21, 2019.