jamb candidates for university, polytechnics, college of education The Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde on Wednesday asserted that despite the approval of new universities, the carrying capacity of all tertiary institutions in the country is less than 800, 000.
He said this was the only available space for the over 1.4 million candidates that sat for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Ojerinde, who spoke in Abuja yesterday, lamented that the good intention of the board to redistribute candidates from overloaded institutions to where admissions could be offered to them was opposed by the people.
“We said some institutions are overloaded and some do not have candidates. We now said let us redistribute the candidates so that they will not lose out finally or delayed.