Imo has highest number of UTME candidates
June 14, 2016.
Dibu Ojerinde
…beats 8 northern states combined
Whereas
98,028 candidates from eight northern states and Federal Capital
Territory sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination, Imo State had 104,383 candidates, CHARLES ABAH reports
Details
of the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination emerged on
Monday with Imo State indigenes topping the list of applicants that sat
for the examination.
The state topped the state of
origin statistics table with 104,383 (about 6.56 per cent) of the
1,592,305 million candidates that sat for the examination conducted by
the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board this year.
This
comes as only 14,242 candidates from both Kebbi and Zamfara states
applied for the examination. Whereas only 5,295 candidates from Zamfara
State sat for the examination, 8,947 others from Kebbi State sat for the
qualifying examination to the nation’s higher institutions.
The
Computer-based examination for entrance to the universities,
polytechnics and colleges of education, which held between February 27
and March 23, took place in 540 centres in Nigeria and eight overseas
countries.
The countries are Benin Republic, Cameroun, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Delta
State came second on the table with 78,854 candidates (4.95) in the
examination in which only 25,445 of the 1,592,305 million candidates
applied to study Agriculture.
The third on the table is Anambra State, which produced 77,694 or 4.88 per cent of the candidates.
Imo State, a reliable source in JAMB confided in our correspondent, has remained on top of the table for many years.
In
the examination, which only 24,160 Lagos State indigenes sat for, their
Osun State counterpart had 72,752 candidates, placing it in the fourth
position.
The statistics obtained exclusively by our
correspondent also revealed that Oyo State, with 72,298 candidates (4.54
per cent), came fifth, while Enugu State placed sixth with 69,381
candidates or 4.36 per cent.
In the seventh position is Edo State
with 66,107 or 4.15 per cent of the candidates, while Ogun State placed
eighth with 62,973 candidates.
Ogun State, with over 15
universities and polytechnics, has the highest number of tertiary
institutions in the country. It has 10 private universities comprising
the Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo; Covenant University, Ota; Bell
University, Ota, established by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and
the Crawford University, Igbesa.
Others are Chrisland University,
Abeokuta; Mountain Top University, Ibafo; Christopher University on the
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, McPherson University, Seriki-Sotayo; Hallmark
University, Ijebu-Itele, and the Crescent University, Abeokuta, founded
by the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola
Ajibola.
Akwa Ibom State, which placed ninth, had 62,369
candidates, while Benue State, in the 10th position, led the pack from
the 19 states in the North with 60,160 candidates.
Kogi State
placed 11th on the rankings with 57,694 candidates, whereas Kwara State,
which accommodates the University of Ilorin, had 54,606 candidates.
Nairaland.com
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