The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, told journalists yesterday that a total number of 1,589,175 candidates applied for the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and 201 out of them are blind while another 343 candidates are prison inmates.

Ojerinde explained that Visually-impaired candidates are expected to take the examination at designated centres in all state capitals and the Federal Capital Territory, whiles inmates at the Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons will have access to computers.

The examination would take place, tomorrow Saturday, 27th of February, 2016.