JAMB UTME: Releases Over 1.3million Result (2018)

Benjamin said (JAMB Official): “We are presently viewing the CCTV to ensure that results are not released in several batches. On Monday, we will release over 1.3 million results. These are the results of the CBT centres that have been screened. We cannot say how many cases of malpractice we have yet, because we are still viewing the CCTV to discover more cases. “Some strange findings that the CCTV has showed us include a situation where the CBT owners were collecting money from UTME candidates and seeing to how they could assist them. Our officials at the centres raised the alarm but they were also afraid so that their lives would not be endangered. “What the JAMB officials did was to silently play along with them, but we were watching everything on the CCTV. We later sent operatives to the centres and caught them. Such UTME results were completely cancelled. We knew that there were some innocent candidates in such centres and we have asked them to go to other CBT centres and rewrite immediately.”

The JAMB official explained that candidates whose fingers could not be captured during the biometric verification before the examination would not be allowed to retake the examination.

He said as the biometric verification had already disqualified such candidates from siting for the exams. Meanwhile, Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Thursday, March 15, blasted parents encouraging their children to cheat in examinations, saying such parents should seek God’s forgiveness. The registrar made the remarks at the board’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, when a suspected impersonator arrested by officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps was paraded for attempting to write the UTME for his brother. 

According to the civil defence corps officials, the mother of the boy, who claimed to be a prophet, directed the boy to sit the examination for his brother. The boy was arrested at the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Air Mas Computer Centre Madalla in Niger.