Nigeria, Aug. 9 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it is considering a new date for the launch of the 2020 admissions process.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported how the board initially told all institutions to begin admission for candidates for first and second choices on August 21, 2020.

In a statement on Sunday, the spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, said JAMB will be meeting all heads of tertiary institutions on August 10 to discuss the possibility of shifting the commencement of admissions to a date that would better accommodate the 'vagaries of the COVID-19 Pandemic.'

"As a responsive organisation whose mantra is equity and fairness, the Board desires that every aspiring candidate who had taken i...