Among the 1,475,477 candidates to sit for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam are 208 prison inmates, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has said. The board announced this through its Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde in Abuja on Thursday.
More than half of the 208 prison inmates are visually impaired candidates. The prison inmates are from Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons.
The Registrar also noted that there is a decline, from last year, in the number of candidates sitting for the exam, stating 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 respectively.
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.
