The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that 18,000 candidates who missed the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will retake the examination on Friday, August 6, 2021.
The Board said that the rescheduled examination will take place in some select locations across the country.
This disclosure is contained in a statement issued by JAMB’s Head of Media, Fabian Benjamin, on Thursday in Abuja.
JAMB in its statement said the 18,000 candidates slated for the examination are being notified through both text messages on their designated phone numbers and their JAMB profiles adding that it has directed the affected candidates to print fresh examination notification slips containing the venue and time of the examination from its website from August 1.