{"id":1317,"date":"2025-02-24T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/giftconsult.com.ng\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2025-02-24T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:21:48","slug":"utme-2025-jamb-registers-over-1-2-million-candidates-in-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giftconsult.com.ng\/blog\/utme-2025-jamb-registers-over-1-2-million-candidates-in-three-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"UTME 2025: JAMB registers over 1.2 million candidates in three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In its weekly bulletin published on Monday, JAMB said it registered 201,867 candidates in the first week, 560,025 in the second week, and 528,823 in the third week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamb.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;(JAMB) said it has registered 1.2 million (1,290,715) candidates for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) in 19 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its weekly bulletin published on Monday, JAMB said it registered 201,867 candidates in the first week, 560,025 in the second week, and 528,823 in the third week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UTME registration, an entrance examination into Nigerian tertiary institutions,&nbsp;<strong>began<\/strong>&nbsp;on Monday, 3 February and continues until Saturday, 8 March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board said it has paid N903.5 million to Computer Based Test (CBT) centres \u2013N141 million in the first week, N392 million in the second week and N370 million in the third week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annually, JAMB registers an average of 1.5 million candidates seeking admission into Nigerian universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. 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