The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
At N5,000 a form, total revenues stood at N8bn.
In addition, the author and publishers of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyuka. a compulsory read for all UTME candidates, made N800m at N500 a copy.
Accredited Computer Based Examination centers, where the final leg of the registration and exams proper will be written, also participated in the cash haul raking in N1.12bn at N700 per candidate.
In all, thenewsmatrics estimates that the 2018 UMTE has cost candidates about N9.92bn so far.
The board commenced the sales of the document on Dec. 6, 2017, and had said it would close on Feb. 6.
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However, the board’s Registrar, Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, on Feb. 6, announced extension of the documents’ sales to Feb. 11, to accommodate candidates who failed to register within the two months window.
According to Benjamin, this year’s registration for the examination has proven to be one of the best in recent times.
“As at the close of work on Thursday, I can comfortably say that we have registered close to 1.6 million candidates for the examination.
“This year’s registration too can be adjudged as one of the best in recent times as it has been smooth, hitch and rancour-free.
“Having said this though, the board will like to warn that there may be no more extension of period of registration for candidates in our future examinations.
“This is because some mischievous persons may want to seize the opportunity of the lengthy period of registration to carry out infractions that could undermine the integrity of the examination,’’ he told NAN.
“We are seriously considering reducing the registration period to about one month.
“We no longer want to give fraudsters the opportunity to deploy all kinds of tricks into the process.
“Imagine a situation whereby in a whole month, less than 10 per cent registered until when we started approaching the last lap of the exercise.’’
(NAN)
