This is to inform candidate sitting for this year Jamb examination that
the earlier fixed day 11th June, 2010 has been shifted to 18th June,
2011 in other to have a hitch-free exercise because of the Neco
Examination exercise.
Details:
JAMB Registrar and Chief Executive, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde, who
announced the shift in date in Abuja, on Wednesday, said the new date,
as approved by the Federal Government, was to avoid a clash in date with
the ongoing National Examinations Council (NECO)’s Senior Secondary
School Examinations (SSCE).
The board had earlier set Saturday, 11th June, 2011 for the conduct of the 2011 UTME.
It will be recalled that JAMB had first shifted the date of the conduct
of the examination from April, 2011 to allow for the conduct of the
2011 general election.
But new change in date, the Nigerian Tribune learnt, was as a result of
pressure from parents of some of the candidates who were currently
sitting for the NECO examinations and had registered to participate in
the forthcoming UTME.
A statement by the JAMB Public Relations Officer, Mr Timothy Oyedeji,
quoted the JAMB boss as saying that “the change has become inevitable as
a result of the clash in date (i.e. 11th June, 2011) earlier fixed
with the ongoing NECO examinations.”
He said: “For instance, sizeable students who have applied to write UTME
would also be sitting for the National Examinations Council’s Biology
(Practicals) on Friday, 10th June, 2011, and as such, may not be able
to travel after their NECO examinations to sit for the scheduled 2011
UTME on Saturday, 11th June, 2011.”
Ojerinde said the government was mindful of the fact that the board had
been inundated with requests from parents of children who chose towns
outside their present’s locations to reconsider and shift the date to
June 18, 2011 as against the earlier fixed date for the 2011 UTME.