Nigeria, Feb. 4 -- Close to 100 candidates waiting to register for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at the Zulquid Consult Limited, the Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre at the Government Secondary School (GSS) Lugbe, left disappointed on Monday after officials told them they couldn't register as a result of network challenge.

Around 2 p.m. on Monday, PREMIUM TIMES witnessed one of the officials asking candidates to leave and come back on Tuesday as the network was not working.

"Nobody has registered today. I'm just coming from Bwari now. Even our Zonal office in Kado, they closed the gate. Nobody is entering inside," he told the waiting candidates.

An official of the centre, Ezekiel Feranmi, told PREMIUM TIMES...