{"id":28066,"date":"2024-04-19T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=28066"},"modified":"2024-04-19T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T08:00:02","slug":"2024-utme-commences-in-over-700-cbt-centres-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/19\/2024-utme-commences-in-over-700-cbt-centres-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 UTME Commences in Over 700 CBT Centres Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) kicks off today, April 19, 2024, across more than 700 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres nationwide. With 1,985,642 candidates registered for the examination, which runs until April 29, 2024, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).<\/p>\n<p>JAMB has issued guidelines for the examination, warning that candidates arriving 30 minutes late will be barred from sitting the exam and marked as absent. Prohibited items, including smart watches, calculators, and bluetooth devices, are strictly banned from the examination centres.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are reminded to stay away from the examination premises as JAMB prohibits their presence during the exam. The Board has instructed CBT centre owners to detain any parent found near their facilities during the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing zero tolerance for examination malpractice, JAMB assures that comprehensive plans are in place to ensure the smooth conduct of the examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) kicks off today, April 19, 2024, across more than 700 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres nationwide. With 1,985,642 candidates registered for the examination, which runs until April 29, 2024, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). JAMB has issued guidelines for the examination, warning that candidates arriving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-28066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28066"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28087,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions\/28087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}