Unilorin bags most preferred Nigerian Institution again.

The University of Ilorin has again emerged the nation's most preferred higher institution of learning, having attracted far more admission applicants than any other university in this year's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This is the third consecutive year that the Better-by-far institution will be attracting the highest number of admission seekers. Statistics obtained from the computer-based test conducted between February 27 and March 3 this year across 540 centres in Nigeria and eight overseas countries showed that Unilorin attracted 103, 238 admission seekers, maintaining the record it had set in the last two years. A total of 1,592,305 million candidates sat for the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board this year. This revelation was contained in an exploratory report on the 2016/2017 pre-admission exercise by one of the nation's leading newspapers, The Punch, entitled "Imo has highest number of UTME candi...