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20,100 candidates register for 2025 UTME in Jigawa

According to him, the registration for DE can only be done at JAMB’s head office.

• March 10, 2025
JAMB
JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says 20,100 candidates have registered for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Jigawa state.

The board’s spokesman in the state, Mukarram Bello, made this known in an interview with journalists in Dutse on Monday.

Mr Mukarram said the candidates were registered by the board between Feb. 3 and March 8 at 12 approved Computer Based Test (CBT) centres across the state.

He said that registration for Direct Entry (DE), which would run between March 10 and April 7, would be carried out at JAMB’s head office, Dutse.

According to him, the registration for DE can only be done at JAMB’s head office.

(NAN)

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