Direct Entry For Foreign Candidate

The Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB)
will begin the sale of the 2017
Direct Entry forms and
registration of foreign
candidates on July 10.
JAMB’s Head of Public
Relations, Fabian Benjamin,
made this known in an
interview with the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Bwari, FCT, on Monday.
Mr. Benjamin said the
process of registration for the
Direct Entry was spelt out in
the just concluded Unified
Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME).
He said candidates for Direct
Entry were expected to have
Advanced Level, Diploma or
its equivalent, while foreign
candidates must possess
proof of residency abroad.
“For the foreign candidates to
be eligible to write
examination in a foreign
centre, you must have stayed
in the foreign country for at
least a minimum of six
months.
“You must have schooled
there, you must have had
your secondary education
there; you must show
evidence of having stayed
there for period of six
months.
“If you have stayed in Nigeria
and just fly to London to
register, you are not eligible;
you must have schooled or
had your secondary
education outside the
country.
“Not that you just finished
Senior Secondary Certificate
Examination in 2016, and
you are rushing to the United
Kingdom to go and write
your examination,” Mr.
Benjamin said.
He noted that measures had been put in
place to ensure that candidates who
wrote the previous examination and
failed were not registered in foreign
countries, unless they meet the
guideline.
Mr. Benjamin explained that the Direct
Entry would be sold at the same price
previously pegged at N5,000, adding that
the Board was yet to fix the price for
application for foreign candidates.
“We are discussing on that, we are
looking at selling the forms at $100
(N31,525.00) for Africans and $150
(N47,287.50) for non-Africans,” he said.
He said that the JAMB Direct Entry was
mainly for people who already possessed
a diploma certificate and wished to do a
programme in the university.
(NAN)
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