It’s Official – JAMB 2017 UTME Holds In May

JAMB 2017 UTME Holds In May Officially – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a date for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The examination will hold across the country in May 2017 and candidates have been advised to be careful of false dates and fraudsters.

The announcement was made today by the JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, through the Board’s Twitter handle @JAMBHQ.

The message read: “2017 UTME is scheduled to hold in May 2017. Actual dates will be announced soon. Beware of false dates and fraudsters.”

Though the date for the examination has been announced, forms are not on sale yet.

Explaining why, the JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said one reason for the delay was due to issues the board had with sale of scratch cards.

He said: “We are changing the major trust of the sale which is the scratch card. Candidates used to buy scratch cards to access the forms online and that has been abused thoroughly.

“What we want to do is for students to pay directly to government coffers and we are working out the process of doing so to avoid the type of abuse that it has been subjected to. So, we want to sell directly and to make sure that candidates pay into Treasury Single Account (TSA).”

Another second reason given was the clash of timetables for which JAMB had met other exam bodies.

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