Senate extends UTME validity period

The Senate on Thursday extended the validity of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination  result conducted the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board from one year to three years.

It also backed the scrapping of the conduct of post-UTME for tertiary institutions’ admission seekers.

If President Muhammadu Buhari gives his assent to the bill and it becomes law, candidates with old results will, henceforth, be given preference over new UTME candidates in subsequent admission processes by the tertiary institutions.

The validity extension and the  post-UTME scrapping was part of the amendments made to the JAMB Act.