The postponed 2015 computer based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, billed to commence on Tuesday nationwide was again marred by failure of internet servers in some centres as well as failure of the biometric machines to capture candidates’ thumb-prints and other data,

Another problem faced by candidates is the posting to other states outside their state of choice. This development it was learned was as a result of shortage of Computer-Based Test, CBT centres in those states.

According to the Public Relations Officer of Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, Mr. Benjamin Fabian, Over 1.4 million candidates will be writing this year’s UTME across 400 CBT centres nationwide.

According to reports, the examinations started late at the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, Enugu State, where  the first batch of candidates who were expected to start the examinations did not start until at about 3.30 pm due to lack of the internet.

Thousands of candidates who travelled from different areas to the centre waited endlessly. JAMB officials who were on hand asked candidates for batch two who were to write their own from 10 am to wait so that they would not come back on Friday for the CBT.

This year’s UTME was initially slated to commence on Monday, March 9, but following some logistics problems, the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, shifted the examination till yesterday.

At the Island Computer College, XYZ Plaza, centre in the Ajah area of Lagos, candidates who showed up at the centre as early as 7.00am, could not begin their exams, as the College was said to be fixing its internet server which encountered technical problems.

The delay led to agitation by the candidates and their parents who had accompanied them to the centre. Save for the timely intervention of some police men and JAMB officials, the centre would have been thrown into confusion.

Similarly, at Chams City in Ikeja, the examination for the first batch billed to commence by 8am could not start until around 9am.

At the University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, there were about four candidates whose thumbprint did not match with what the exam body had on its database. However, since other data provided by them during registration for the exams were correct, supervisors at the centre allowed them to be screened based on the exemption mode.