JAMB Updates the Public on the Number of Registered 2024 UTME Candidates So Far

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that about One Million Seventy-Two Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-Two (1,072,122) candidates have registered for the current 2024 JAMB exam registration. This information was announced in the board’s weekly bulletin. It is necessary for applicants planning to register to know that the deadline for registration remains February 26th, 2024. There might be no lengthening of the date. Prospective candidates who plan to register are to make sure they do so immediately to avoid a last-minute rush.

Also, Mr. Olugbenga Akintola, the Acting Director of the Ibadan Zonal Office of JAMB, stopped by different CBT centers in Ibadan to inspect how the 2024 registration process is going. He informed both the candidates and the CBT centers about the importance of following JAMB’s instructions. He emphasized the necessity to verify each candidate’s identity using their profile codes and ePINs received on their mobile phones before registering them. This is to avoid issues like group registrations and mismatched data.

JAMB had previously ordered all candidates for the 2024 UTME to show their profile codes and e-PINs, gotten from JAMB’s USSD code 55019 or 66019, on their mobile phones during registration. This method aims to evade errors in candidates’ information, such as names, dates of birth, and state/local government of origin. In the past, some schools, due to lack of knowledge or recklessness, mixed up candidates’ details, leading to the candidates facing complications in correcting their information, and in many cases, these revision requests were not ratified.