2017 UTME to hold in May – JAMB

The Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) have announced that the
2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) will hold in May 2017.
This was made known by the JAMB
spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, through
the Board's Twitter handle @jambhq.
According to him, actual dates will be
announced soon. He also advised
candidates to beware of false dates and
fraudsters.
"2017 UTME is scheduled to hold in May
2017. Actual dates will be announced soon.
Beware of false dates and fraudsters," he
said.
Meanwhile, JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq
Oloyede has explained why an unusual
delay has preceded the sales of application
forms.
He said the ongoing switch-over in the
major thrust of the sale of form which is
the scratch card to direct payment into the
Treasury Single Account (TSA) was
responsible for the delay.
Oloyede 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 TSA
account."