UTME: Dilemma of awaiting result candidates

•Anxiety as 2m applicants justle for few admission spaces
 
By Gabriel Dike
The over two million candidates that wrote the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are anxious to know their fate on their chances of securing admission. Some tertiary institutions have conducted post-UTME and admitted fresh students
The institutions commenced the exercise even before the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) released the results of the Computer-Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (CB-WASSCE) on August 5, 2026. This has resulted in panic among candidates and parents, especially those awaiting results. Many could not upload their WASSCE results t...