UNILAG sweats over about 36,000 post UTME candidates

The Deputy Registrar (Information) of the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB), Olagoke Oke, revealed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Oke said the high number of candidates was caused by the reversal of the Board's decision to reassign candidates for the Post-UTME examination.

Protest following its redistribution policy, designed to help needy universities with lower number of candidates, as well as give the candidates better chances of admission, had led to a Federal government intervention.

Oke however noted that UNILAG is ready to handle the daunting number of candidates.

"I want to say that all logistics toward a smooth conduct of this examination are fully in place, we have always been ready for situations like this and have always got it right," he said.

"Before now, we were hoping to put logistics in place for the initial 9,000 candidates, but with the reversal of the decision, we now have to re-adjust and I want to say that we are fully prepared.

"All our computers and its accessories, the backups, alternative power supply as well as adequate personnel that will conduct the examination are all ready."

The exercise has been extended to three days because of the large number of candidates from Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th of August.