Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board on
Wednesday said the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation
Examination might not hold in
troubled states in the North.
The examination, in which over 1, 735,720 candidates
are expected to participate
in will hold on Saturday.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, the JAMB Registrar Chief Executive, Prof. 'Dibu
Ojerinde, said the board
"may not hesitate to stop the
examination if there is any
security problem".

Responding to a question on
security challenges in the
country, Ojerinde said,
"Yesterday it was a big
discussion among some
agents as well as JAMB. We
believe that things will be all
right. You see, we believe
that we will surmount the
problem.
"If however, there is any
problem, we may not hesitate
to stop the examination in
those areas to the extent
that we will now give the
children a chance of doing
the examination on CBT only.
"If you miss Paper Pencil
Test in a challenging area
that you cannot do the
examination, then you will
have to do the next one and
that will have to be as from
May 18.
"With God, we shall not
experience any problem. We
have put everything humanly
possible in place, we have
put this before God, and we
believe he is not going to
sleep on that day. But if
there is a need for
postponement in those
places, we shall not
hesitate."
There have been reported
cases of violence occasioned
by the activities of the
insurgent group, Boko
Haram, in many states in the
north in recent time.
Meanwhile, Ojerinde, said the
Board had concluded
arrangement for its first
Computer Based Test in 70
centres across the nation
from May 18 to June 1.

The CBT, he said, was an
alternative to the Dual Based
Test and PPT scheduled for
Saturday.
Ojerinde said 1,629,102
candidates applied for the
IPT, 15,008 candidates for
the Dual Based Test while
91,610 candidates applied
for the CBT.
He said the figure for 2013
showed an increase of
231,789 applicants when
compared with last year's
figure of 1,503,931
representing an increase of
13.35 per cent.
Ojerinde said 145 visually
impaired candidates
registered for the
examination while 196
inmates registered for it from
Kaduna and Lagos prisons.



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