The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said that 1,475,477 candidates will sit for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations scheduled for between March 10 and 21.

Among the candidates are 208 prison inmates and 192 visually impaired candidates. The prison inmates are from Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons.

The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, who announced this in Abuja on Thursday, however, noted the number of candidates writing the examination this year dropped when compared to that of 2014.

He stated that 1,632,172 candidates sat for the examination in 2014.

The registrar, who said the examination would hold in 400 centres in Nigeria and in seven overseas countries, also noted that Imo State recorded 104, 381 candidates, the highest applicants from the states this year.

Delta State came second with 78,854 candidates while Anambra State came third with 77,689 candidates.

The Federal Capital Territory CT, according to him, has the lowest with 4,085 candidates.

Three North-east states, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe, have 15,692, 15,613 and 10,044 candidates in that order.

Ojerinde, who attributed the decline in the number of applications to insecurity in some parts of the country, added that the CBT platform also eliminated multiple registrations by the candidates

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