Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated it has actually not increased the registration cost for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 2024.
Way of life Nigeria reports that JAMB specified that the expense of purchasing the UTME type stayed N3,500, regardless of a boost in its expense of production.
JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor Fabian Benjamin in a declaration in Abuja, stated the expense of the board’s evaluation charge stayed low to make sure that prospects were not overloaded.
The declaration checked out, “The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has actually been drawn to a number of publications in current times insinuating that the board has actually increased its evaluation registration cost.
“This is far from the reality, as the expense of getting the board’s UTME application files stays N3,500, which has actually been the expense of its application files considering that it was lowered from N5,000 in 2018.
“Therefore, the board wants to state that the expense of the application file cost has actually not been increased, in spite of the dominating financial truth in the nation, which has actually likewise impacted the expense of the Board’s operations.
“Consequently, the board wants to ensure the public that the board has actually been doing all within its powers to guarantee that prospects are not overloaded in any method.
“One of these steps is to intentionally keep expense low, thus its choice to provide its Use of English checking out text complimentary of charge through a QR code to make sure that the boost in expense of production is not passed to prospects.