32,000 candidates for Unilag’s post-UTME. That's pretty much oh

More than 32,000 candidates will write the 2015 post-Unified Tertiary Ma­triculation Examination (UTME) into the Univer­sity of Lagos (Unilag), ac­cording to the institution’s Deputy Registrar (Infor­mation), Mr. Olagoke Oke.

The examination is scheduled to hold from Au­guest 12 to 14.

Oke told the News Agen­cy of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday that the figure was close to four times the 9,000 that was initially posted to the institution by the Joint Admissions and Matricula­tion Board (JAMB).
NAN reports that JAMB in collaboration with some public universities had agreed to raise the bar of the cut-off marks of their institutions from 200 to 250 for the various courses.
The development had generated an outrage among candidates, their parents and other stake­holders, who called on the Federal Government to in­tervene.

The decision was later reversed after consultations between the Prof. Dibu Ojerinde-led JAMB and the Federal Government.

The deputy registrar said the university was com­pelled to extend the exer­cise to three days because of the large number of can­didates seeking admission into the institution.

He however, advised candidates to arrive early at the examination centres for a hitch-free exercise.