Nigeria, May 24 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said a total of 160,617 candidates will be taking part in its mock unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) which is slated to hold on June 3.

The examination, which had earlier been scheduled to hold on May 20 before it was postponed, will be conducted at the approved 802 computer-based centres (CBT) located in 104 designated examination towns across the country.

The head of JAMB's public affairs and protocol unit, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this on Monday in an exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr Benjamin advised all candidates who had registered for the examination and indicated interest to sit the mock examination to reprint their notificatio...