The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) have announced that the 2017 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will
hold in May 2017.
This was made known by the JAMB
spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, through the
Board’s Twitter handle @jambhq
According to him, actual dates will be announced
soon. He also advised candidates to beware of
false dates and fraudsters.
“2017 UTME is scheduled to hold in May 2017.

Actual dates will be announced soon. Beware of
false dates and fraudsters,” he said.
Meanwhile, JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede
has explained why an unusual delay has preceded
the sales of application forms.
He said the ongoing switch-over in the major
thrust of the sale of form which is the scratch card
to direct payment into the Treasury Single
Account (TSA) was responsible for the delay.
Oloyede said:

“We are changing the major trust of
the sale which is the scratch card. Candidates
used to buy scratch cards to access the forms
online and that has been abused thoroughly.

“What we want to do is for students to pay
directly to government coffers and we are working
out the process of doing so to avoid the type of
abuse that it has been subjected to. So, we want
to sell directly and to make sure that candidates
pay into TSA account.”