The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says there will be no going back on the new deadline for the current registration of candidates for the Direct Entry examination.
The Head, Information and Protocol of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
Recall that the board had the registration of candidates for Direct Entry from Feb. 20 to May 13.
However, registration of the candidates was restricted to just the zonal offices of the board across the country.
The development created a surge that allegedly led to some candidates sleeping outside the gate of the Lagos zonal office of the board, all in a bid to beat the registration deadline.
This led to a public outcry, as some stakeholders were insinuating plans by the board to disqualify many candidates from participating in the exercise.
Reacting to the development, the board, opened another window for the direct entry on Tuesday, May, 23.
The step was taken in a bid to counter the claims made against the board and give prospective candidates equal opportunity to sit for the examination.
The board said that it had opened the registration at its Lagos office in Ikoyi and the JKK CBT Centre on Ikorodu Road.
The new window for registration is to close on May 30.
NAN
