The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) has restricted candidates from choosing two public universities during the 2017 online registration.

This entails that candidates can only select a public university and a private university, but not two public universities.

Speaking exclusively to our correspondent, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB's Head of Media and Information, on Saturday asserted that the choice of public universities was restricted to one but candidates can choose as many colleges of education and polytechnics as they want.

The new update was revealed by JAMB via its official twitter handle @JambHQ on Friday.

It reads: "candidates can select NCE as their choice up to three times I.e 1st choice, 2nd choice and 3rd choice.

"But they are not allowed to select two public universities as choices. If candidates select a public university as their degree awarding choices, they are all continue here http://www.solaceloaded.com.ng/2017/02/jamb-restrict-candidates-from-choosing.html[color=#990000][/color]