The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says a sum of 343 jail detainees across the country will take an interest in the current year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

It said that these detainees would likewise have admittance to PCs at both the Kaduna and Ikoyi penitentiaries.

The board's Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, declared this in an announcement, saying more than 1.85 million applicants connected during the current year's UTME on its Computer-Based Test (CBT) stage.

He said that the current year's figure is a change on the 1.47 million applicants who connected for the same examination in 2015.

It included that the figure for the 2016 UTME demonstrated an expansion of 113, 673 candidates against a year ago's figure.

"The 2016 UTME will start on Saturday, Feb. 27 and will keep going for around 14 days.

"It is, be that as it may, expected that all applicants why should not able finish up their enlistment process as at Feb. 5, will grab the chance of the 48 hours beauty of the opening of the gateway to do as such before mid-night of Feb. 25," it said.

The board brought up this did exclude new enlistment.

"The board needs to grab this chance to plainly express that the Federal Ministry of Education and JAMB won't be doing this again and planned future candidates'registration will close as showed in our promotion.".

It noticed that the board's registrations examination has become a ``vitally imperative door" to tertiary foundations in Nigeria with an incredible measure of execution and respectability imitated universally.

The announcement clarified this was inspite of expanding number of competitors and different difficulties which the board's administration had reliably tended to.

It said, "For purposes of clarity, let me remind Nigerians that, the main Joint Matriculation Examination (JME) was held in 74 towns in Nigeria and by an uncommon solicitation in Gambia, with an aggregate number of 96,884 hopefuls tried.

"In any case, the difficulties in the behavior of examination got to be tremendous as the quantity of competitors expanded.

343 Prisoners to Sit For UTME Saturday