The 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commenced in Oyo State on Friday, April 19, 2024, without glitches, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said.

The JAMB Zonal Coordinator, Gbenga Akintola, said this after monitoring the examination in some centres in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Friday.

The examination started at the stipulated time in the centres on day one of the five-day exercise.

JAMB coordinator said the centres are scheduled to hold two sessions of the UTME each day.

Akintola said: “This is our business and every year we keep improving our strategies.

“We have not received any negative news from our centres.

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“If any centre has any issue they would have called, but we have not received any report of glitches whatsoever.”

He said JAMB took care of every category of candidates including persons with disabilities.

According to him, candidates with Down Syndrome, altruism, physically challenged, and others are at special centres across the country where they will write the examination.

Akintola added: “For the South-West, it has been taken care of at the Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo State, where there are adequate facilities for the exercise.

“Other zones of the country have designated special centres for these categories of candidates.”

He said some centres in some states were delisted as accredited centres due to infractions and not meeting stipulated standards during the mock examination.

Akintola noted that no centre was delisted in Oyo State.

The JAMB coordinator, however, declined to give the number of candidates sitting for the examination and the number of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in the state.

The Star