Nigeria, March 3 -- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that a total of 1,687,860 candidates have registered for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

In its weekly bulletin, the Board noted that the registration figure was achieved over a span of 26 days, with just six days remaining before the registration deadline of 8 March 2025.

The registration exercise, which commenced on 3 February 2025, has seen a consistent increase in the number of applicants.

Meanwhile, the Board had earlier projected that about two million candidates would register for this year's UTME, a figure consistent with previous years.

JAMB also published that there has been a prompt in disbursing payments to Com...