No Admission For 1.2m UTME Candidates – FG

The Federal Government has said that only 520, 000 candidates out of the 1.7 million that registered for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be offered admission into tertiary institutions in the country.

Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, who made this known while addressing newsmen at the Federal Government Academy, Suleja, after monitoring the conduct of the UTME, on Saturday, said only 520,000 spaces are available in all the federal, state and private tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

According to her, the bulk of the 1.2 million candidates would have no placement because of the low carrying capacity of the institutions available, adding that she was pained that most of them who sat with all seriousness for the examination might not have access in the long run.