This year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB) will end on Thursday nationwide. More than 1.3 million candidates including a total of 355 blind persons sat the exam at the various computer-based centres (CBT) spread across the country. 9 and 1.8 million candidates sat for the exam in 2020 and 2019 out of which 341 and 390 were blind candidates, respectively. The one-week-long exam, however, had all the blind candidates as usual as the last batch of the exercise distributed across 11 designated centres nationwide with Lagos centre having the largest candidates (51). CLAIM 1: A Twitter user claims UNICEF said any efforts to block children from accessing pornography might infringe their human rights.JAMB ends 2021 UTME as 335 blind candidates sit for examination nationwideJAMB ends 2021 UTME as 335 blind candidates sit for examination nationwide

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 30, 2021 17:48 UTC