The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced on Sunday that the 2024 Direct Entry (DE) registration will now close on Monday, June 17, 2024.
To accommodate the increased number of prospective DE
candidates, JAMB has expanded DE registration points beyond the Professional
Registration Centres (PRCs) in the states experiencing high demand.
This decision comes in response to numerous requests and
pleas from stakeholders and authorities over the past month for an extension.
Spokesperson for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on
Sunday, listed centres in affected states as follows, Lagos State, JAMB PRC,
Ojora Road, Ikoyi Lagos; JAMB PRC, Isheri Road, Ogba, ETC Nig. JKK House
Ikorodu, Road, Ilupeju.
Oyo State: JAMB PTC, JAMB Zonal Office, Agodi G.R.A, Ibadan;
FCE Special, CBT Centre, Oyo and JAMB PTC, Igboho.
For Kwara State: JAMB PTC, National Headquarters Annex, Old
Jebba Road, Ilorin, Kwara State and University of Ilorin CBT Centre, Mini
Campus.
Osun State has JAMB PTC, Alekuwodo; OSPDC, Oroki Estate,
Ilobu Road, Osogbo, Osun State and JAMB PTC, Gbongon.
The Board urged all eligible candidates to take advantage of
this opportunity to register as no further extension would be entertained,
saying the previously announced criteria for DE registration remain unchanged.
On Kwasu Diploma, the Board stated,” Having held high-stake
meetings with the principal officers of the Kwara State College of Arabic and
Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS) and the Kwara State University (KWASU), on the
CAILS-KWASU Diploma programme, the Board has agreed to conduct a special
registration exercise for the 3,633 prospective candidates, who did not
participate in the 2024 UTME based on the assumption that they would be
accommodated in the 2024 DE exercise.
“These candidates are, therefore, to register at any of the
approved CBT centres in Kwara, Oyo or Osun State within the next one week
(ending on Monday, 10th June 2024) to register for the UTME.
“469 others among this category of UTME candidates who had
already taken the 2024 UTME need not retake the examination. The one they have
already taken suffices”
This concession is to ensure that, while standards are being
maintained, efforts are in place to support and promote the aspirations of
qualified and willing candidates even if it requires bending over backwards.
The Board also announced that a supplementary 2024 UTME has
been scheduled for Saturday, 22nd June 2024 for the following candidates:
CAILS-KWASU candidates referred to above; some (20,550) of the candidates whose
results are up till now under investigation; 2,702 candidates whose fingers
could not be verified who are given the benefit of doubts to sit the 2024 UTME.
JAMB added, “The remaining 322 candidates have been migrated
to the category of candidates under examination misconduct as a prima-facie
case has been established that those who had registered were not those who
appeared for the examination. Consequently, the number of examination
misconduct has increased by 322 to 43.”
Similarly, as the Board analysed the process and conduct of
the 2024 UTME in some centres where there are strong proofs of substantial
non-compliance with the Board’s standards, it has rescheduled a retake for
24,535 candidates in their chosen examination towns on Saturday, June 22, 2024.
However, the statement added that 3,921 outstanding 2024
UTME results that had been cleared have now been released.
It urged concerned candidates to check their results by
sending RESULT to 55019 or 66019 to ascertain their status as those cleared
would have their results while those rescheduled would be told that they had
been rescheduled.
“The rescheduled candidates are to print their supplementary
Examination Notification Slip from Tuesday, 4th June 2024 to ascertain their
designated examination centres.
“This release brings the total results released to
1,883,350. The rescheduled examination, which is taking place on Saturday, 22nd
June 2024, two weeks from now, is to give affected candidates adequate time to
prepare for the exercise.
“This notice does not concern candidates whose results have
been released. Candidates with prima facie case(s) of examination misconduct,
would be further interrogated to establish their culpability after which
appropriate measures would be taken on them and announced”, the statement
added.