JAMB begins sale of Direct Entry forms July 10

Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede

Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede

THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced July 10, as the commencement date for the sale of the 2017 Direct Entry forms and registration of foreign candidates.

The Board had shifted the conduct of the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in six foreign centers to allow for concentration of efforts in the conduct of examination for over 1.7 million candidates that registered in Nigeria.

JAMB’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, who spoke on Monday in Abuja, said candidates for Direct Entry were expected to have Advanced Level, Diploma or its equivalent, while foreign candidates must possess proof of residency abroad.

He disclosed that the Direct Entry forms would be sold at the same price previously pegged at N5,000.

He, however, said the Board was yet to fix the price for application for foreign candidates.

“We are discussing on that. We are looking at selling the forms at $100 (N31,525.00) for Africans and $150 (N47,287.50) for non-Africans,” he said.

He said: “For the foreign candidates to be eligible to sit for examination in a foreign center, you must have stayed in the foreign country for at least a minimum of six months.”

“You must have schooled there, you must have had your secondary education there; you must show evidence of having stayed there for period of at least six months.”

“If you have stayed in Nigeria and just fly to London to register, you are not eligible; you must have schooled or had your secondary education outside the country.”

“Not that you just finished Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) in 2016, and you are rushing to the United Kingdom to go and write your examination,” Mr Benjamin said.

He noted that measures had been put in place to ensure that candidates who sat for the previous examination and failed were not registered in foreign countries, unless they meet the guideline.

He said that the JAMB Direct Entry was mainly for people who already possessed a diploma certificate and wished to do a programme in the university.

S-Davies Wande