Adajo explained that the extension was necessary to ensure all the candidates have time to register.JAMB Portal

He said: “Ordinarily, registration for UTME has closed. But to take care of people that could, for one reason or another not be able to make the deadline of February 14, especially as you know, most of the registration processes depend on banks and we could not have top-level bank operations from the past three weeks for understandable reasons.

“Here, the turnout is very low because the first set of registration that ended on February 14 had virtually captured more than 98 percent of people. So, the people that are being captured now are those that are left over.NYSC Portal

“Today, for instance, we only met three people. We asked the head of this center how many were registered on Saturday and he said about 15. So, I think the monitoring gave us the confidence that, yes, it was a good idea to extend. So, we don’t leave anybody out of the box.”