JAMB now building 8 centers for candidates in Nigeria

The Federal Government has approved the construction of eight Computer Based Test (CBT) centers
in eight states ahead of next year Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
According to Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) , Professor Dibu Ojerinde, the Federal Government has approved the construction of the centers in four states in the North and four in the South.
Professor Ojerinde who disclosed this to journalists in Abuja at the weekend during the monitoring of the examination on its last day alongside the Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau said government was determined to reduce the number of days the examination took this year and other challenges.
The CBT centers which he explained would house about 270 computer systems would be sited in Kano, Oyo, Niger, Bayelsa and four other states.
Over one million candidates across 400 centers in Nigeria and eight other countries sat for this year UTME which commenced on March 10 and ended on March 21.
 “Nigerians should expect more centers next year. It is not going to last this long and like the Honourable Minister has said, the federal government has ordered that centers should be built for us.
“As of today, eight have been ordered in eight states which would be big as what we have here and it would carry at least 270 systems. You would expect those centers in Kano, Oyo, Bayelsa, Niger states. In fact, four in the South and four in the North,” Ojerinde said
Speaking on the CBT, Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau expressed government’s satisfaction with the conduct of the examination which according to him has taken Nigerian to modernity and global trend in the education sector.