JAMB Restates  Time and Date Deadline  For 2026 UTME Registration

<p>JAMB Restates  Time and Date Deadline<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board &lpar;JAMB&rpar; has stated that the registration deadline for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination &lpar;UTME&rpar; will not be extended&comma; warning prospective candidates to complete their enrolment before February 26 or risk missing the exam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a definite notice released on Tuesday&comma; the Board declared that the sale of e-PINs&comma; which are required for registration&comma; will end at 12&colon;00 midnight on Thursday&comma; February 26&comma; 2026&period; Registration at accredited Computer-Based Test &lpar;CBT&rpar; centres for candidates who have already purchased their e-PINs will end two days later&comma; on Saturday&comma; February 28&comma; 2026&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As of February 17&comma; JAMB disclosed that over 1&period;5 million candidates have successfully registered nationwide&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Despite this impressive figure&comma; the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">Board<&sol;a> revealed that registration centres across the country are operating at barely 30 per cent of their daily capacity&comma; raising concerns that many eligible candidates are yet to take advantage of the ongoing exercise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">JAMB<&sol;a><&sol;strong> noted that it has the capacity to register 100&comma;000 candidates daily&comma; a figure that significantly exceeds the current turnout at centres nationwide&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to JAMB&comma; its examination timetable is part of a nationally coordinated calendar agreed upon by all examination bodies in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The UTME registration window was carefully structured to ensure a seamless transition to other public examination exercises scheduled to follow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Consequently&comma; there is no available window for any extension&comma; even if the Board were inclined to consider one&comma;” it said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The examination body warned that candidates who delay registration until the final days may encounter avoidable challenges and stressed that it would not entertain appeals once the deadline lapses&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;JAMB described the early warning as a proactive measure to ensure that no serious candidate is shut out of the examination process due to procrastination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;