Nigeria, April 23 -- More than 200 candidates could not sit their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at the Skillpath International Academy, Karu, Abuja, Nigeria's capital territory, on Tuesday morning due to technical hitches.

Candidates and officials at the centre told PREMIUM TIMES that the technical hitches affected candidates who were scheduled to sit the examinations at 7 a.m.

A parent who does not want to be quoted told PREMIUM TIMES that he got to the examination venue with his daughter before 6:30 a.m. but the daughter couldn't sit the examination.

"Those billed for the 7 a.m. paper went in around 6:30 a.m. They had even started but she said she only had Physics left when the screen went off and showed disconnec...