The Registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede, has said there is no plan to postpone the ongoing UTME amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
He disclosed this while speaking in an interview with Punch Newspaper.
“I understand that many of the CBT centers made separate provisions against the coronavirus. You can trust Nigerians that when it comes to protecting our lives, we don’t joke with that.”
“There are no crowds at our CBT centres.
“This is because although when we started, we were getting 250 persons per session at a centre.”
“But by Thursday, that had been reduced. By now, we have done for over 1.3 million candidates of the 1.9 million candidates who registered.”
“By the end of Thursday, what remained at our CBT centres was so insignificant that they didn’t constitute any threat. This is apart from the fact that so far so good, we have also made provisions to ensure that candidates are not unnecessarily crowded in a place”, he said.
On Friday, the Federal Government and many states government order closure of public gatherings including religious services.
