At the end of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, 1, 837, 011 candidates were registered, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) (UTME).
The amount comprised Direct Entry (DE) candidates, according to the board, which announced it in its Weekly Bulletin on Monday in Abuja.
According to the Nigerian News Agency (NAN), the board's 2022 registration began on February 19 and ended on March 26.
The board has also scheduled its examinations to hold from May 6 to May 16.
Jamb also added that N238, 105, 700 cumulative amount derived from the regulated N700 service charges from the fifth week of the exercise had been remitted to its accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres.
NAN recalls that the board had earlier banned the use of cash in all its accredited CBT centres during the exercise.
It instructed all applicants to pay the e-PIN vendors' service fees, as well as the N3, 500 application costs, which it remits to the centers on a weekly basis proportional to the number of candidates they register.
However, the board stated that payments of the total money to all centers did not include JAMB-owned CBT centers.
It went on to say that the strategy had decreased the harsh practices connected with assigning candidates to underperforming centers.
