Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board JAMB, has conducted 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations in nine countries, and ready to screen 27,105 results.
The board stated this in its weekly bulletin. The nine examination centers outside Nigeria are located across west central and Southern Africa, Europe , Asia and the Americas.
The countries in West, Central and Southern Africa are Ghana, Republic of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon and Johannesburg.
In Asia, Jeddah the capital city of Saudi Arabia was chosen. The unified examinations will be held soon in London, United Kingdom, and Berlin, Germany. New York will host students in the United states.
The bulletin noted that 1,761,338 candidates registered for the exercise, while a total of 1,707,626 sat for the examination with 1,671,203 results released so far.
In its publication titled ‘2022 UTME in statistics’, JAMB stated that, “69 results are withheld and 27,105 undergoing further screening; 1,783 candidates with biometric challenges are being processed”.
Olusola Akintonde and Qasim Akinreti.
