The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it is fully ready for the conduct of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This was contained in the weekly Bulletin of the Office of the JAMB’s Registrar and made available to newsmen.
It was gathered that all the items on the checklist of the board towards the preparation for the conduct of the 2019 UTME has been sorted and have been presented to the Governing Board at its meeting, which held on Feb. 6.
According to the Chairman of the Board, Dr Emmanuel Ndukwe, the board has looked at all preliminary procedures and has come to the conclusion that if the board wants to conduct examination today, it can do so successfully without hitches.
It was also learnt that the board has critically assessed progress made in the registration exercise, centre accreditation, revalidation and a link test of all the Computer-Based Test Centres (CBT) to ascertain their functionality as claimed by the CBT centre owners.
The 2019 UTME is scheduled to commence on March 16, 2019.