A power outage at one of the examination centres in Lagos, has forced the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board to reschedule the third session of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Computer-Based Test (CBT) to May 31.
The examination, which was previously scheduled for May 26 at the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) in Lagos, had to be shifted because of the outage, Noble Onukwue, JAMB’s Deputy Director, Outstation, told newsmen in Lagos.
Onukwe said the test would now be held at 11.00am, explaining that the outrage caused delay in concluding the second session of the examination, which made it impossible to start the third session.
“It was not safe to keep children late because for the examination because of the security situation in the country. Some of these children are from very far distances and keeping them will amount to rushing the examination so as to get home on time. So the best decision was to reschedule which is one of the flexibilities of the CBT.”
Onukwue said that one of the criteria the board requested from examination centres was provision of adequate power supply without relying on public sources of electricity.
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