The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has granted an extension to the registration deadline for the 2024 Direct Entry (DE) program, now set for Monday, June 17, 2024.
Responding to the surge in applicants, JAMB has widened the scope of registration centers beyond the Professional Registration Centers (PRCs) in states experiencing high demand. This adjustment comes following numerous appeals from stakeholders and authorities in recent weeks.
Fabian Benjamin, spokesperson for JAMB, detailed the additional registration centers in affected states. In Lagos State, centers include JAMB PRC on Ojora Road, Ikoyi Lagos, and JAMB PRC on Isheri Road, Ogba, among others. Oyo State provides centers like JAMB PTC in Agodi G.R.A, Ibadan, and FCE Special CBT Centre in Oyo. For Kwara State, options include JAMB PTC National Headquarters Annex in Ilorin and the University of Ilorin CBT Centre. Meanwhile, Osun State offers centers like JAMB PTC in Alekuwodo and OSPDC in Osogbo.
JAMB emphasized that this extension is a one-time opportunity and urges all eligible candidates to register promptly. There will be no further extensions, and 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.”