Speaking to reporters on Friday while monitoring the registration process at various centers in Lagos, the JAMB registrar Prof Isiaq Oloyede revealed that a total 780,202 candidates has successfully registered for the 2025 UTME so far.
He said sọ far the registration is giving on seamlessly, and there are no plans for extension.”
“It [extension] can never happen, because there is no problem, students are registering, and we are registering daily, more than what we had budgeted to, we had planned for, we are surpassing the target, so for me, these students are going to universities.
“This is the first time that I will be registering 80,000 plus, yesterday we registered close to 100,000 across the country, so we budgeted for 60,000 per day, that’s what we use in our planning, but from the third day, we started 80,000, 90,000 per day, so which means we will finish long before the time, because we started Monday before the last, and today we are just still on Friday.
“By now we have 782,000 plus, out of about 2 million we expect, and we are not up to 14th day, it is on Monday that will be our 14th day, so two weeks will be on Monday, so we still have Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, before you can say we are two weeks into our five weeks, and by that time we will be over 1 million, so what else do we expect, it has been smooth,” he said.
