The 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB has started in over 800 centres across Nigeria.
Our correspondents who visited some computer-based centres in Abuja metropolis on day one of the test, reports that the biometric capturing was closed to seemless and candidates who filled out orderly into examination halls and were mostly seen on face masks.
Most of the centres are expected to have between two and three sessions of 200 candidates each.
The first session scheduled to begin by 7am, was delayed in few centres due to what JAMB supervisors describe as caused by arranging the spaces as the initial exercise.
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Some accredited JAMB monitors appraised the exercise but however advised against disregard for Covid-19 social distance protocol.
For some candidates , their desire is to have a successful test to enable them to study their preferred courses in the tertiary institutions of their choice.
More than one point three million candidates registered for 2021 UTME and a little more than seventy three thousand applied for direct entry.
The exercise is expected to end on July 3.
(Editor : Paul Akhagbemhe)
